We arrive in New Zealand which truly is very clean and very green. Tasting and dinner with Ata Rangi in Martinborough.

Dinner at Wildfire in Sydney in the company of some venerable old and unbelieveably young Australians.

We hit golf balls into the Hunter Valley and try some of my most favourite Australian Shiraz.

A visit to the Kirk family in Canberra who make the legendary wines of Clonakilla and the most iconic and original Australian Shiraz/Viognier blend

Maclaren Vale - a journey to the dark side

Shaw & Smith in Adelaide Hills are characteristically sleek while Balnaves are rather too.....rustic

The wines of Charles Melton on a houseboat on the Murray River

Super fresh and fine Rieslings from Clare Valley blow away the travel cobwebs.

True love blossoms at Cullen in Margaret Rive

Visit and tasting at Plantagenet where, as usual, I find that the Shiraz is by far my favourite in the range.