Sydney In Focus

Six of our best thinkers and opinion-makers discuss what they most admire about Sydney, and suggest some timely improvements.

A Net Full Of Grapes

The internet is brimming with information on everything to do with the good grape.

Your Weekend...

TODAY Berry Agricultural Show - At Berry Showground, Alexandra St, Berry. Berry Wine & Food Exhibition - At Berry School of Arts, Alexandra St, Berry, 1.30-5pm.

Labels Of Love

When choosing a bottle, it's often not what's inside, but what's outside that counts, writes Keith Austin.

Bottled Art

Wine making is a fine art - but for some wine makers, art is a serious matter, too.

Little Aussie Bottler Puts Us In The Red

America's wine critics enjoyed the latest offerings from Australia, a 1996 Coonawarra cabernet-merlot and a 1998 Yarra Valley chardonnay. They described the red's aromas of fresh cherry and cassis, its notes of blueberry, plum and oak and it various hints of herb, mint, underbrush and even tobac

Vital Southcorp And Foster's Both Get It Right On Wine

There is an emerging conventional wisdom within the wine industry that the more successful a wine business becomes, the less appealing it is an investment. That is a view of the industry and its investment characteristics that is being challenged by the two major premium-wine producers, Southcor

The Do's And Don'ts Of After-dinner Speaking

I'M JUST a boy who can't say no. Ring me after lunch and I am yours. After-dinner speech? ``No problem!" Tasting for charity? ``Where do I start?" Wine the movie? ``I'll lose 10 kilos." I should learn to switch the phone off after the end of lunch (4.30pm) but usually I'm in su

Mail Vin

RESEARCHING this story almost sent me stark raving mad. If you've ever read a direct-mail wine club brochure, imagine having to read 11 of them, understand them, work out what they're talking about, and decide if they're offering value. Many of you will already have tried it. And probably