A week ago I was given the grand tour of the amazing d’Arenberg “CUBE”. Wow! I was left in no doubt that ‘Willy Wonka’ has landed in McLaren Vale, as the CUBE is as bizarre as Willy Wonka’s factory is. Read More...

When I joined the wine industry in the mid-to-late 1980s in Sydney, very few people outside of South Australia had heard of McLaren Vale as a wine growing region, or of its wines. Sure, some people knew of d’Arenberg and Pirramimma and perhaps Ryecroft and Wirra Wirra but that was about it. Read More...