I know I'm in mortal danger of becoming the Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez among wine hacks, but for the sake of completeness here is one final speech from my Australian sojourn, which is drawing to a cl

Professor Kym Anderson asked me to speak on Monday 8th February at a wine workshop entitled 'The world's wine markets by 203

The chance to address the AGM of the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation is one which will probably only come once in a li

Here is the text of the speech I delivered at the National Wine Centre in Adelaide on the evening of November 10th: a public

The week before last (during which a tentative spring exploded into summer in South Australia) saw me down in Coonawarra helping , as International Judge, to scrutinise the entries for the 2009 Limest

A brief flier to anyone in or around Adelaide for two (free) events over the coming eight days.

A sizeable portion of my desk time since I arrived in Australia has been spent preparing speeches, lectures and seminars on

As mentioned in the last blog, two of my four summer Financial Times pieces have been on Australian topics, and I resume these in edited form below.

Apologies: this long-trailed blog entry has dragged its heels owing to pressure of work and travel (to Tasmania and WA).