The World of Fine Wine - Issue #73

The World of Fine Wine Issue #73 is a quarterly wine journal, notable here for a long feature on Place of Changing Winds.

Sixteen pages on a single Australian project is unusual anywhere, and they go to Place of Changing Winds in the Macedon Ranges, drawing on an extended correspondence between Rob Walters and Andrew Jefford about what high-density planting and Pinot Noir were meant to achieve there. Around that sit essays on limestone, authenticity, scores and what wine costs, plus tasting reports covering Rioja, Malbec and Riesling from both Germany and Alsace. The title has run quarterly since 2004 in a format much closer to a hardback than anything on a newsstand.

Australian readers get the most from this one, since the centrepiece examines a local project at a length the domestic press rarely allows. The soil and pricing essays suit anyone who argues about minerality or about what a bottle ought to cost.