Strawberries & snowflakes: The Top 20 Red Blends
The winter solstice is here. Or was. The passage of the year’s shortest day leaves Australians to reconcile the impossible contrast of the season’s depths and the peak of the Queensland strawberry season. Can it really be winter when supermarkets are selling two punnets of sweet, red berries for $5? Go figure. Winter’s nadir also […]
Everybody Loves Riesling: Australia and NZ’s Top 20 labels
Riesling is the thinking person’s white wine. It can run the gamut from dry to sweet, metamorphoses with just a few years in the bottle and reflects Australia’s varied terroir like few other grapes. With so much on offer, it’s easy to see why riesling is the sweetheart of local wine judges. The variety topped […]
Wine Form 2018: Vinloco’s new guide to the best wines in Australia and NZ
Buy better wine and save money with the biggest listing of current-vintage wines in Australia and NZ. We’ve just published Australasian Wine Form 2018 – a 904 page book listing 41,000 wine show scores from Australian and NZ wine shows held in 2017. We’ve catalogued and ranked more than 13,000 wines with lists of top […]
Cabernet Shiraz: the Classic Aussie blend’s Top 20
The pavlovas await their final decoration of kiwifruit and mango, servos around the country have been raided for every last bag of ice and lamb has tripled in price. It must be Australia Day. While minority politicians drum up some cheap publicity by questioning the legitimacy of the nation’s day off, millions of Australians are […]
Twinkle, twinkle little stars: Australia’s best sparkling wines
Christmas is so close we can smell it! The tree is up, the lights are twinkling and the supermarkets are starting to wonder if it’s not too early to start selling Hot Cross Buns. So, not a moment too soon, we name our list of Australia’s best sparkling wines. And we have a silly season […]
Insider tips: 2017’s Top Riesling Contenders
Wait… is that a McLaren Vale label in our list of 2017’s top rieslings? Perhaps it’s a case of age before beauty but D’Arenberg’s 2010 Dry Dam Riesling breaks the mould of the Vale’s traditional strengths in warm climate reds to vie with more traditional regions for this year’s pick as Vinloco’s Top Riesling. After […]
Insider Tips: Contenders for 2017’s Best Pinot Noir
Which of these wines will take out Vinloco’s Top Pinot Noir for 2017? These are the likely contenders from the 41,000 wine show scores we’ve indexed this year. After a filtering our database to show gold medal winners – a good but not foolproof method of highlighting contenders – we’ve come up with the following […]
Great Grey, Green, Gris-y Grigio: Australia’s Top 20 Pinot Gris wines
Pinot gris is the grape critics love to hate. Well, certainly one venerable old critic, who despises the variety as an “empty vessel” compared with more deserving rivals such as semillon or Riesling. But there’s a lot to like about pinot noir’s more down-to-earth cousin. For one thing, its versatility makes it an easy match […]
Savvy blancs: Australia’s Top 20 Sauvignon Blancs
Love it or hate it, sauvignon blanc is Australia’s top choice white wine. Or any wine, actually. And the biggest sellers come from across the Ditch in what Australian winemakers bemoan as a Sauvalanche that engulfs local offerings. Luckily for them, Kiwi sauvvies struggle to make our lists thanks to a mathematical handicap arising from […]
Tutto bene: Australia’s Top 20 Proseccos
Prosecco is to sparkling wine what rose is to still. It’s hot – damn hot. There’s no particular reason for it. The wine itself is a fairly basic, fresh and fruity sparkling that trades on its Italian origins to get away with a cheap production process and affordable prices. However prosecco has also established itself […]