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Max Allen

Melbourne

Author, ‘Alternative Reality: How Australian wine changed course’, out now through @MelbourneBooks Columnist for @FinancialReview & @Jancis_Robinson

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  • The perfect wine pairings for bone marrow and offal pie

    1 week ago | afr.com | Max Allen

    Apr 16, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Likes a digression, does Trevor Gulliver. One minute, our conversation’s happily trotting along a straight wine path, with Gulliver telling me about the claret and burgundy he sells at St John, the Michelin-starred restaurant he co-founded in London in 1994 with chef Fergus Henderson.

  • Melbourne’s ‘urban wine’ scene is older than you think

    2 weeks ago | afr.com | Max Allen

    Apr 9, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? A new venue called Melbourne Winery is scheduled to open this month in the heart of the Victorian capital.

  • One of Australia’s newest vineyards has been 150 years in the making

    3 weeks ago | afr.com | Max Allen

    Apr 1, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Where did the time go? It feels like only yesterday I was standing in a chilly paddock in the Barrabool Hills, outside Geelong, watching a group of local winemakers on their hands and knees in the red dirt, planting 450 spindly young vines.

  • The other white burgundy is stepping out of chardonnay’s shadow

    1 month ago | afr.com | Lap Phan |Max Allen

    Mar 26, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Poor old aligoté. For decades, this white Burgundian grape variety lurked in the shadows of chardonnay, relegated to those areas considered not quite good enough for the much more famous white grape.

  • The new Sailors Grave Brewing at Dunetown, East Gippsland, offers Dark Emu beer with native grains and quesadillas

    1 month ago | afr.com | Max Allen

    Mar 21, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? I’m drinking beer and eating quesadillas at a new brewery cellar door. Nothing unusual about that – except this operation isn’t tucked down some inner-city laneway. The new home of Sailors Grave Brewing is in among the sand dunes a couple of kilometres outside Marlo, at the mouth of the Snowy River in East Gippsland.

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