James Halliday's Australian Wine Companion is the No. 1 bestselling guide to wineries and wine in Australia. Keenly anticipated by winemakers, faithful collectors and wine lovers alike, the 2010 edition has been completely revised and updated to bring you up-to-the-minute information.

Halliday shares his extensive knowledge of wine via detailed tasting notes, each of which includes vintage-specific ratings and advice on optimal drinking, as well as each wine's closure, alcohol content and price. He provides important details on wineries – including opening times, contact details and web addresses – in addition to biographies on each, and information about the winemakers.

An indispensable reference for all enthusiasts of Australian wine, the Australian Wine Companion is a must-have for anyone planning to visit a wine-growing region or to replenish their cellar or wine rack. It is the most authoritative and entertaining guide to Australian wine.

James Halliday's Australian Wine Companion is the No.1 bestselling guide to wineries and wine in Australia. Keenly anticipated by winemakers, faithful collectors and wine lovers alike, the 2011 edition has been completely revised and updated to bring you up-to-the-minute information. Halliday shares his extensive knowledge of wine via detailed tasting notes, each of which includes vintage-specific ratings and advice on optimal drinking, as well as alcohol content, price and a value rating. He provides important details on wineries - including opening times, contact details, vineyard sizes and web addresses - in addition to biographies on each, and information about the winemakers.

An indispensable reference for all enthusiasts of Australian wine, the Australian Wine Companion is a must-have for anyone planning to visit a wine-growing region or to replenish their cellar or wine rack. It is the most authoritative and entertaining guide to Australian wine.

Fully revised and updated, the fifth edition of The Rewards of Patience is the most comprehensive book produced to date. The 288 page volume offers tasting notes and unique commentaries on over 370 Penfolds wines from five of the world’s leading wine journalists. This is possibly the last time such an extensive tasting of Penfolds wines back to their inaugural vintages will ever be held.

As many of Penfolds wine drinkers are interested in the longevity and further cellaring potential of their wines, Penfolds provides a comprehensive guide to address these, and many other questions. The Rewards of Patience gives a wine by wine assessment of drinking and cellaring potential as well as offering information on the Penfolds philosophy, wine investment, wine clinics, cellaring advice and the 'Story of Grange'.

In addition there are features not seen in previous editions: the history of Penfolds; an overview of Penfolds South Australian vineyards; a look at the elite Grange Growers’ Club; and biographies of Penfolds Chief Winemakers, past and present.

"The Rewards of Patience (fifth edition) will surely stand unchallenged as the ultimate guide to drinking and cellaring Penfolds wines." - James Halliday

From the author of ‘Cellaring Wine’, Tyson Stelzer, comes a comprehensive, independent report into one of the most hotly-debated topics in the Australian wine industry. Tyson explores this topic by tackling all the frequently asked questions in this, his latest book. Available now for just $11.95 per copy plus freight, a must read for anyone who has ever extracted a cork from a bottle of wine – Bert Werden. Freight within Australia $5.95, Outside Australia $11.95.

If you’ve ever asked your host, ‘This white wine is lovely but do you have any real wines?’ then this is the wine guide for you. There is a glut of wine guides out there, but Campbell Mattinson and Gary Walsh reckon that most people buy them for the sections on red wine, and that it’s a trickier area to navigate. So this is the only guide of its kind in Australia: one for those wanting to know the best quality and best value red wines available. Award-winning wine critic Campbell Mattinson and established wine publisher Gary Walsh share their knowledge in expert tasting notes on more than 1000 red wines, including more than 500 new releases across all prices and styles. Each is rated on price, value for money and investment potential, with notes on past vintages. With wine-drinkers becoming both more environmentally and economically conscious, Campbell and Gary have included a new chapter on organic and biodynamic reds, and have focused more intensively on the best buys on the market. Cheap wines can be great wines, as long as you know what to look for, and with the ‘top 100 wines at $20 or less’ section, you’ll be armed with all you need to know.

Campbell Mattinson won the Best Australian Sports Writing Award in 1996, an Independent Young Writer of the Year Award in 1995, and the prestigious NSW Wine Press Club Wine Communicator Award in both 2005 and 2007. He wrote Why the French Hate Us and the first and second edition of The Big Red Wine Book and has written for The Bulletin, Gourmet Traveller WINE, Decanter, and Australian Table. Gary Walsh was the publisher of the successful online wine review site Winorama until he joined The Wine Front as its co-publisher. He’s the former wine editor for Inside Out magazine and believes in reviewing wine with a light heart and a firm hand. Twenty years of obsessive wine tasting and drinking, he thinks, gives him some sort of excuse for being published.

New in the 2012-2013 edition:

•More than double the size of the 2011 edition, with 356 pages reviewing and rating more than 400 champagnes.

•The most up-to-date champagne guide, featuring all the latest, freshest releases, all tasted recently.

•Fully independent assessments - no marketing spin and no advertising.

•Profiles and ratings of almost 100 champagne producers, from the smallest growers to the largest houses.

•Fully updated and frank commentary on all the current issues facing Champagne: Global warming, expanding boundaries, excessive yields, antiquated cru system, and how to avoid corked, stale and lightstruck champagnes.

•New chapters on capturing minerality, making sense of biodynamics and organics, the latest trends in dosage and the grower versus house dilemma.

•Champagne Hall of Honour, ranking the best producers in Champagne this year and the best champagnes of the year under $60, under $100, under $200, at any price, and the best blanc de blancs, blanc de noirs, rosé and low dosage champagnes.

•Everything you need to know about how champagne is grown and made and how to buy, open, serve and store champagne.

•The most detailed and up-to-date maps of Champagne in print.

•More than 500 photographs.

•Guide to visiting Champagne.

•Index of champagnes by score.

•Glossary of champagne language.

•Top forty Australian sparkling wines.

•Fully updated Australian retail directory.

All for less than the price of even a cheap bottle of champagne!

In Why the French Hate Us he (Mattinson) demolishes the myth of corporate Wine Australia with all sorts of riveting tales of idiosyncratic individuals. Jancis Robinson on jancisrobinson.com:
 
It is indisputable that Mattinson is the most literate author Australia has had since Walter James dominated the scene from the late 1940s and ’50s. Reading the book, you might well picture Mattinson as a blue singleted, aggressive, macho Aussie male who just happened to be able to conjure up landscapes with a few well chosen words. In fact he is distinctly reticent and quietly spoken, still coming to terms with the fact that, literary skills to one side, he has rapidly become a very good wine taster and industry observer. This is a book full of entirely new insights into Australian wine, the way it is made, the way it is marketed (or mis-marketed), and where it should head. And you don't have to be a wine-nerd to enjoy every page. JamesHalliday in The Australian:
 
What I'd been looking for is someone who can write about wine but do so in a fun and entertaining way. I think I've finally found him - the guy's name is Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is the author of a new book called Why the French Hate Us - even the title is entertaining ... reading the book it's clear Mattinson knows how to tell a story. He's a writer who just happens to write about wine - and he does so in a way that clearly shows his enthusiasm for the subject ... If you've got a wine lover on your Christmas list and you're wondering what to get them as a gift - buy this book. Glen Humphries in the Illawarra Mercury

The best read of the new (wine book) crop is Mattinson’s Why the French Hate Us. Mattinson is a terrific writer, passionate about his subject and tells the story of how the Australian wine industry forged a formidable international reputation ... it’s compelling stuff. Winsor Dobbin in the Syndey Sun Herald

Mattinson's title is provocative, but it's also tongue in cheek crack; he's not really having a go at the French, but rather is referring to the strength of Australian wine exports. Understanding this title is the key to understanding Why The French Hate Us, which is simply a celebration of Australian wine. Eating Out Hong Kong