2025 Halliday Wine Companion has awarded Fighting Gully Road the coveted five red-red winery star rating aka Top Five-Star rating, or those with the printed Companion: Where the winery same itself is printed in red; refers to a winery with a long track record of excellence, having held a five-star rating continuously for at least 10 years…the best of the best in Australia! Continue reading Halliday: Five Red-red Winery Star-rating
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Deep Dive: Australia’s Best Sangiovese
Recently, the Young Gun of Wine team decided to revisit a Sangiovese-focused tasting…some five years on from their inaugural ‘Deep Dive into Sangiovese’ in 2019. Continue reading Deep Dive: Australia’s Best Sangiovese
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2024 Vintage Report
Well, the 2023/24 growing season kicked off very much like the couple preceding it – cool and wet! However, budburst was earlier, which thankfully meant that the commencement of harvest was also brought forward by a couple of weeks.
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#V24, the state of play
It’s a warm Thursday in February, 2024, the vines are heavy (well most), and several of our neighbours have already commenced picking their fruit. Continue reading #V24, the state of play
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World’s Best Sommeliers’ Selection 2024: 2019 La Longa Sangiovese
The World’s Best Sommeliers’ Selection 2024 has officially been unveiled! We have some exciting news about our 2019 La Longa Sangiovese… Continue reading World’s Best Sommeliers’ Selection 2024: 2019 La Longa Sangiovese
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2023 Vintage Report
The season leading up to the 2023 vintage was, in many ways very similar to the two which preceded it. The winter of 2022 was typified by wet conditions, which didn’t allow many frosts to occur which normally breaks the weather into fine sunny days with cold nights.
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Halliday 2024 Viticulturist of the Year!
On the evening of August 02, 2023, Mark Walpole was awarded the 2024 Halliday Wine Companion, Viticulturist of the Year.
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Alternative History
Beechworth’s own Mark Walpole recently took out the inaugural Viticulturist of the Year award at the Australian Alternative Varieties Wine Show (AAVWS) – granted in recognition of his ongoing contribution to the development of alternative varieties in Australia. The award gave him cause to reflect on the birth of alternative varieties in Australia, and the role that wine shows play in it.
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Time travel: Tempranillo
The latest release from Fighting Gully Road is inspired by a visit to northern Spain more than 20 years ago… Continue reading Time travel: Tempranillo
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A Sangiovese Story
When chance brought Mark Walpole and fellow vigneron Alberto Antonini together on an international flight in 1997, the world of alternative varieties in Australia didn’t know what it was in for. Continue reading A Sangiovese Story
