Readers Wine Advice

Help and be helped in planning a wine trip. What is your favourite alternative varietal wine? Do you know of a special place to stay in a wine region? Here's your chance to share your wine advice, or to tap into the collective wisdom of vinodiversity readers.

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I am progressively adding a facility for readers to add comments and tips for readers planning wine tours to the various wine regions. I am interested in getting reader feedback, and maybe some discussion going.

Reader comments can be about wineries, restaurants, accommodation other attractions or events of interest and relevance to the readers of this website. In other words those interested in Australian wines made from less common grape varieties.

What can you write about?

• How about letting us know about that great B&B you found on your last wine trip?
• Or maybe you'd like to give some public acknowledgement to the extra friendly staff at a cellar door.
• Perhaps you know about an upcoming wine event.
• If you fancy yourself as a book reviewer you could write a short piece on a food or wine book.

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2007 Vintage Report for Anderson Winery Rutherglen 
2007 was a bizarre season at Anderson Winery, with harvest starting a good month early due to the drought.

Our vineyard is essentially dryland (unirrigated)...

Gippsland Gourmet Trail August 07 
Gippsland has no officially designated wine regions, but is home to many small wineries that emphasise the hand-made. It is also a fine place to indulge ...

Rutherglen Wine Weekend 
Rutherglen is a great place for a weekend wine trip, with terrific restaurants and some excellent wineries including Campbells, Stanton and Killeen and ...

Shinas Estate - The Innocent Viognier 


Recently I had the pleasure of tasting this incredible viognier. A recent convert to this wine I have spent some time hunting out some different wineries ...

International Wine Competition Tempranillos al Mundo  Not rated yet
The Spanish Federation of Enologists (FEAE) convokes the fourth edition of the International Itinerant Wine Competition "Tempranillos al Mundo". The contest ...