Looking at a map of Australia, it's easy to spot where the great Cabs come from: the farther south you get, the cooler it tends to be. Margaret River in Western Australia is on the opposite side of ...

I cleared my schedule for just a week, all I could spare, for a quick trip to Oz. Australia is as big as the states, so I concentrated on one area, a varied chunk of the south: Melbourne, the ...

At the turn of the 20th century, Nellie Melba was one of the most famous women in the world—an opera legend with a name as recognizable as Adele’s and Beyoncé’s today (after all, Peach Melba and Melba ...

ALEX MITCHESON heads just beyond Melbourne to uncover the cool-climate treasures of the Yarra Valley. Regularly slated as Australia’s premier cool-climate district, the Yarra Valley — with its ...

WHY IT RATES: The new voco, the second in Australia, will be located in one of the country's premier wine regions, a place that has attracted the likes of Stevie Nicks and Robbie Williams to ...

In 1996, architect John Denton purchased 150 acres of land—78 of them under vine—in the middle of the Yarra Valley, about an hour’s drive from Melbourne; think of it as Napa Valley’s Australian cousin ...