Today
- Drinks With Max Allen
- Life & Leisure
Max Allen’s guide to stocking a bar trolley
This selection of nine ingredients – all from Australian makers – will have your cocktail cabinet ready for Christmas action.
- Max Allen
Yesterday
A toast to the five best champagnes of 2024
The year may be nearly over, but there’s plenty left to celebrate. Pop a bottle of our drinks editor’s favourite bubbles to do it in style.
- Max Allen
This Month
- Christmas Gift Guide 2024
- eBooks
Books to treasure or give this holiday season
Elevate your mood and mind with our selection of new coffee table editions, ranging from spectacular photography to quirky knowledge.
- Stephen Clark
- Drinks With Max Allen
- Life & Leisure
For the wine-lover in your life, wrap up this literary treat
One Thousand Vines will change the way the reader thinks about – and enjoys – wine. Plus, three vintages to sip along the way.
- Max Allen
- Christmas Gift Guide 2024
- Life & Leisure
Excess all areas – for those who prefer price on application
Gift options are wide open when money is practically no object. Something from this gold-standard selection is sure to delight.
- Eugenie Kelly
November
Cult Tasmanian whisky Sullivans Cove has a stately new home
After a $14m revamp, the Sullivans Cove distillery outside Hobart is worthy of its award as the world’s best whisky.
- Luke Slattery
Max Allen’s top 20 drinks of the year
After 12 months of tasting, our expert reveals his picks of 2024: a diverse bunch of white and red wines, and a couple of non-alcoholic stunners.
- Max Allen
- Drinks With Max Allen
- Life & Leisure
How one man’s mission to save a rundown vineyard won him global renown
When viticultural expert Dylan Grigg bought his plot of old-vine grenache in the Barossa, it was a mess. Now it’s a destination for travelling winemakers.
- Max Allen
- Drinks With Max Allen
- Life & Leisure
Tolpuddle’s new tasting room is another great reason to visit Tasmania
One of the island’s most revered vineyards is opening its doors to the public.
- Max Allen
It turns out gin and tennis do mix
Four Pillars co-founder Matt Jones plays competition twice a week and believes there’s a parallel between the ways you can improve in sport and business.
- Life & Leisure
You can’t buy it on the phone. You can’t find it on the internet
To get hold of the world’s best mezcal, you need to go to a private bar in Mexico City. It’s like taking a spiritual journey around the country.
- Kate Hennessy
Is this Australia’s best shiraz?
These wine show judges certainly think so: the Great Australian Shiraz Challenge turns 30, and it’s needed now more than ever.
- Max Allen
October
Three Australian bars ranked in world’s top 50, led by ‘beloved spot’
Three Australian bars have been named in the world’s top 50, including Melbourne venue Caretaker’s Cottage, which jumped to No. 21 overall.
- Gus McCubbing
- Drinks With Max Allen
- Life & Leisure
Soak up the Melbourne Cup atmosphere at these top wine bars
Settle in, order a glass, and watch the world go by at these five fabulous institutions.
- Max Allen
For those on the list, Melbourne Cup dining is first across the line
Ross Lusted will cater for members at Flemington Racecourse ahead of his first Melbourne restaurant opening, and Birdcage guests are in for some feasting, too.
- Necia Wilden
This Australian winemaker has just won a global award for his sparkling
Ed Carr is more than happy to pick up the international awards and bring them home to a smaller, local wine company.
- Max Allen
- Drinks With Max Allen
- Life & Leisure
This World War II cognac could be yours for a ‘mere’ $1299 a bottle
Plus, how to join in celebrating a decade of rare 10-year-old Australian single malts.
- Max Allen
An Australian’s revolutionary wine glass has floored French experts
It looks intriguing and glassware designer Denver Cramer says it can “age” its contents by four to five years.
- Paul Best
Why young people are choosing this tipple over wine and beer
The No.1 brand in light-coloured RTD spirits is a canned drink called Hard Rated, which has succeeded in the ultra-competitive liquor market by being low-calorie and citrusy.
- Simon Evans
Treasury Wine teams up with US actor to woo female drinkers
Drop of Sunshine took two years to develop with actor and film producer Reese Witherspoon’s media company and is hitting shelves in the US and Australia first.
- Simon Evans
