The 29th edition of Australian Wine Vintages, or the 'Gold Book' as it is affectionately known, offers more than ever before to wine drinkers and collectors. This new edition has over 4000 wine reviews and focuses on the highest quality producers and wines which represent excellent value.

Now in its 35th edition, the Gold Book, also known as Australian Wine Vintages, is an essential guide to wine. It provides detailed tasting notes of over 3,500 wines from across Australia and New Zealand in print, and over 15,000 in the related app. It provides advice on vintage quality and times to drink a wine, features a comprehensive selection of Top 100 and Gold Star Wines of the Year, includes information on past vintage wine details for those who are cellaring and/or have the chance to trade back vintages, presents a range of wineries, and is the perfect guide for exploring wine country or even your local bottle shop. Thirty-five years since its inception this book continues to take its place on the shelves of loyal wine lovers as a comprehensive and enjoyable guide, no matter what your level of wine knowledge!

2016 Guide to the top 10% of Australian Wine

Each year Rob and his tasting panel highlight the best wines while providing winery ratings, and expert's star ratings for each wine. In addition to the wine and wineries review section, the best wines conveniently appear in the Top 100 wine list for the year's most outstanding wines and the Gold Star wine list for wines that consistently perform their best vintage after vintage. This year you will experience the taste of place of 17 new wineries and over 35 new wines of the highest quality.

First Vintage explores the forgotten history of the early Australian wine industry. Few people know that vine cuttings were brought to Australia on the First Fleet and planted in Governor Arthur Phillip’s garden at Circular Quay, or that botanist and champion of colonial development Joseph Banks encouraged plans to create a wine industry from the earliest years of the colony. Before the assisted migration of German vinedressers in the 1830s, any convict or free settler with a hint of vine growing or wine making expertise was quickly drafted to the cause. First Vintage reveals the people who dreamed of making Australia a wine-drinking country, including influential colonists Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson, Richard Windeyer, John Macarthur and Thomas Mitchell, who all had vineyards. It shows the challenges of choosing vine stock, the battles to protect against pests and diseases, and the innovation of new technologies which assisted small scale growers, many in wine regions which vanished from the landscape and memory for much of the twentieth century.