Murray Tyrrell News Today

When Murray Tyrrell laid down his first vintage of Vat 47 in 1973, he was told no one would drink white wine with oak in it. How wrong his detractors were.

Ken Gargett on the singular appeal of the long-lived dry Semillons of the Hunter Valley, one of Australia's greatest white wine styles.

Quick Quiz: Name three Australian wines with superstar status on the international scene.

The Tyrrells are self-confessed larrikins of the wine world and delight in telling how they jumped the fence one night in 1969 to pinch some important chardonnay vines.