The Australian Wine Annual 2006

Your essential guide to drinking pleasure with nearly 10,000 wines rated.

The most comprehensive guide to Australian wines and wineries from Australia's most respected wine writer

In their inimitable style, well-known wine writers Huon Hooke & Ralph Kyte-Powell assess over 1000 Australian wines. The guide features tips on the availability of wines, explains new drinks labelling, & provides information on food accompaniments.

The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide is one of Australia's best-selling wine guides and is each year eagerly awaited, not only for the prestigious Penguin Wine Awards, but also for Huon and Ralph's entertaining and informative 'good oil' on Australian wines and winemakers.Last year saw the introduction of classifying wines by grape variety. This year, to make the Guide even more user-friendly, it features an extensive index that lists all wines reviewed by brand name.Huon and Ralph review over 750 top new Australian wines, providing the most comprehensive range of best quality and best value wines to choose from, plus loads of tips to help you make the most of buying, cellaring and drinking wine. Also included are the best wines for under $15, tips for the bargain hunter and the top BYO restaurants in Australia.The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide is the most up-to-date wine guide around - no one should buy wine without it.

The English language version of Jeremy Oliver's Australian Wine Annual is released nationally on 28th October. Also translated into Mandarin Chinese and sold throughout mainland China, the 18th edition of this bestselling guide to Australian wine takes all the hard work out of selecting what wines to drink and cellar. This fully independent expert catalogue of the very best Australian wines at each price point features more than 300 wineries and nearly 14,000 wines, each of which Oliver has tasted himself! Amongst the hot tips are Jeremy's Wine of the Year and 9 finalists, his Top 100, plus his ever popular list of the best Australian wines for under $20. Non-technical and simple to follow, it presents a score out of 100 and a tasting note for the current release of each wine listed with colour coded charts of drinking windows indicating quality cellaring potential of back vintages. The book also features full colour labels of every wine making it as easy as possible for people to find the wines they want to taste and enjoy.

The 19th edition of Jeremy Oliver's best-selling guide to Australian wine takes all the hard work out of selecting what to drink or cellar. It's a fully independent expert catalogue of the very best Australian wines at each price point, featuring more than 300 wineries and nearly 19,000 wines, each of which he has tasted himself! Amongst the hot tips are the Wine of the Year, the 9 other finalists and Jeremy's Top 100, plus his popular list of the best Australian wines for under $20. Non-technical and easy to follow, it presents a score out of 100 and a tasting note for the current release of each wine listed, plus colour coded charts of drinking windows indicating quality and cellaring potential of back vintages. The book also features full colour labels of every wine, making it simple to find the wines people want to taste and enjoy. Encyclopaedic, accessible and extremely easy to use, The Australian Wine Annual 2016 is the definitive and must-have guide to Australian wine for wine lovers the world over.