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The accidental winemaker

Akiko Freeman from Freeman Winery wowed everyone with her discerning palate, which is how she found herself making Burgundian-style Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in California.

LeVeL33 launches new beer with Two Birds Brewing

LeVeL33 taps its first collaboration beer in August, a joint project between brewmaster Gabriel Garcia and Jayne Lewis, from Melbourne’s acclaimed Two Birds Brewing which has created flavours like taco beer.

Vine Expectations: The optimist

For 20 years, Alex Dale from The Winery of Good Hope has championed Chenin Blanc in his adopted homeland of South Africa – and is finally drinking the results.

Vine Expectations: Second Nature

Biodynamic winemaker Vanya Cullen’s keen ‘taste of place’ and connection to the land is the reason that Cullen Wines continues to put Margaret River on the map.

Vine Expectations: Going Places

We find out just how much of luck, art and science went into millenial winemaker Nic Peterkin’s independent Margaret River wine label, L.A.S. Vino.

A Singular view on Rioja

Juan Carlos López de Lacalle of Artadi caused waves when he quit the Rioja appellation, which allows only one geographic indication.