Cabernet Sauvignon, native to Bordeaux, has thick blue skins, giving the resulting wines plentiful tannins and phenolics and making them particularly ageworthy. Over the past 50 years, Cabernet ...

Pasquale (Pat) and Vittoria (Vicky) Vasarelli moved with their parents from Melbourne to McLaren Vale in 1976. They began the establishment ... but in that year they joined Cellarmaster Wines and the ...

Location is also key at The Vale. Positioned in the centre of the township – on the famous McLaren Vale Shiraz Trail – Vale ...

Winemakers have dismissed the government’s budget gesture lifting the rebate available to wineries by $50,000 as a “drop in ...

In partnership with Chapel Hill, we’ve put together a guide that takes in the best of McLaren Vale, from iconic wineries and stunning beaches to top restaurants. Australians are blessed when it comes ...

She lives in McLaren Vale in a gorgeously renovated home flanked by beds of wildflowers with her husband and two small kids. She and her husband Domenic run Down the Rabbit Hole, a small-batch wine ...

Halliday Wine Companion. 14.5% alc; RRP $36 a bottle. From Dandelion’s Firehawk Farm, perched atop an ancient ridge overlooking McLaren Vale, comes this layered example of premium straight grenache.