Notable cabernets
Cabernet Sauvignon has the remarkable honour of being included in several of Aotearoa’s top wines, albeit alongside blending partners, rather than as a pure varietal wine.
Wine Spotlights
A cabernet form guide
Australia has many regions producing excellent cabernet sauvignon and cabernet blends. Here is Huon Hooke’s ‘form guide’ to cabernet in Australia.
Is Australian cabernet coming back in from the cold?
Aussie cabernet seems to have stopped being cool in the last decade or two, morphing into a golf club wine or the bottle your grandparents chose.
Greece’s native grapes explored in Sydney
Melissa Moore received an invitation to a Greek wine tasting hosted by Louella Mathews of Sommeliers Australia with Deja Vu Wine Co., under the title ‘Ancient Vines, Enduring Legacy—At the Heart of Indigenous Greece’.
Sweet wines of New Zealand
Closing off our 2026 series of deep-dives into the top scoring wines of Top Wineries, we come to the category of sweet wines.
Sweet and fortified wines of Australia
Australia has a great global reputation for sweet fortified wines but not so much for sweet white table wines.
The best of red and rosé wines of Australia
What are the best Australian red wines? It’s a difficult question as we are spoilt for choice. Where should we begin?
Top Wineries trends in red and rosé
Continuing our ‘behind the scenes’ exploration of this year’s Top Wineries results, we look deeper into the top scoring wines in both red and rosé.
100-year-old Vouvray at Azuma
It’s not every day Huon Hooke gets to taste a 100 year-old table wine, especially a white wine.
Bin 707 shows its age-worthiness
Penfolds maestro Max Schubert invented not only Grange, but Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon and many other famous and enduring red wines during his time in charge of winemaking at Penfolds.