The informed, independent guide to Australian wine for the interested wine drinker.

The key reference for thousands of wine buyers, Jeremy Oliver’s Australian Wine Annual is the biggest-selling annual guide to Australian wine. Now in its eleventh edition, it is the only classification of Australian wine based on quality alone and provides the most detailed tasting notes in print.

The most user-friendly guide there is to Australian wine, Jeremy Oliver’s Australian Wine Annual details the country’s best and most important wines year by year, rating them out of 100 points and telling which to drink, which to cellar and for how long. It also provides the most extensive commentary on back vintages of key wines, which are regularly re-tasted and re-evaluated.

Jeremy Oliver tastes many more wines each year than are presented in The Australian Wine Annual, since he wants to keep it as a selection of ‘best of’ wines in each price category, making the selection process for buyers easier than ever.

Jeremy has published books and articles on Australian wine since 1984. He is the face of Australian wine overseas, regularly representing the Australian wine industry in a large number of key export markets.

Jeremy Oliver’s Australian Wine Annual is entirely free of any commercial association with Australian wine producer, large or small. Jeremy Oliver is fully independent and does not derive any portion of his income either as a consultant to or an employee of any wine producer or distributor.

If you buy Jeremy Oliver’s wine guide, you are buying his comments and reviews, and not those of an un-named panel of anonymous tasters. If it has his name on it, you can rest assured that Jeremy Oliver wrote it.

Importantly, the scores and views presented in The Australian Wine Annual are taken directly from Jeremy Oliver’s own tastings, and not from the winemakers’ ratings of their own wines.

With a wealth of easily accessible information, The Australian Wine Annual takes the risk from buying wine and deciding which to drink or cellar, or for how long. A vintage-by-vintage guide to the country’s best and most important wines, it features wines from Penfold’s famous Grange to more popular labels such as Jacob’s Creek and the Wolf Blass Yellow Label cabernet blend. Its simple layout and easily navigated format features the full-colour reproduction of wine labels, plus an easily understood layout presenting wine ratings and recommended drinking windows for each wine.

Jeremy Oliver’s Australian Wine Annual features pithy editorial comment and commentary on recent trends and developments in Australian wine, seasonal variation, wine investment and trends in wine growing. Wineries are listed alphabetically, and include key personnel, contact details and a recent progress overview.

The 2009 edition of Jeremy Oliver’s Australian Wine Annual includes:

1. Ratings of more than 10,000 plus wines (more than any other annual guide)
2. Full colour labels and tasting notes of 1,080 current release wines
3. Information and commentary on 273 wineries
4. Fully independent wine rankings
5. When to drink each wine
6. Australia’s perfect 1’s
   Jeremy Oliver has given his highest wine ranking of 1 to a mere 18 wines. These are the wines that time and again perform to the highest standard.
7. Jeremy Oliver’s Wine of the Year
   Henschke Hill of Grace 2002 – “A near-perfect Eden Valley shiraz...”
8. The Top Tens
   A series of innovative lists of the best wines of their kind.
9. Directions to 2025.
   Jeremy Oliver introduces and explains the wine industry’s new strategy to add value and sustainability...
10. 2007 Vintage Report
    An outline of the disappointingly small 2007 vintage conditions throughout Australia and the resultant effect on key varieties.
11. Trends in Australian Wine
    New wave chardonnays, a resurgence in cabernet sauvignon, some top local wines from Italian and Spanish varieties and the move towards organic and biodyanamic wine…
12. Cellaring Wine
    Advice and tips on how to care for your wine and to make the most of your cellar, and, if your dream home didn’t come equipped with a cellar, where you can find alternatives.

The big questions people want to know about wines are: ‘What to buy?’, ‘What to drink?’, ‘What to cellar and for how long?’ and ‘How good are they?’. There is no book in print that answers these questions better than this approachable guide.