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Easy drinking with Nick Stock

Nick Stock — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:07:00 +0000

Nick Stock is one of Australia’s most well-known and highly-regarded wine critics. He co-owns McLaren Vale’s favourite beach front bar and restaurant the Silver Sands Beach Club and The Old Bush Inn Hotel, Willunga’s “top pub.” Read more of Nick Stock’s work over at nickstock.com.au With two Jimmy Watson trophies and a list of awards and accolades for both him and his wines as long as the Heysen Trail, he has much to smile about. Yet here we are, surrounded by a lineup of his best bottles on a Tuesday afternoon in a cocktail bar in Adelaide, and he is looking

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Nick Stock’s wine notes: Penfolds Collection 2025

Nick Stock — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:41:14 +0000

Nick Stock is one of Australia’s most well-known and highly regarded wine critics. He co-owns McLaren Vale’s favourite beach front bar and restaurant the Silver Sands Beach Club and The Old Bush Inn Hotel, Willunga’s “top pub.” Penfolds Collection 2025 Whether you collect Penfolds reds religiously, drink the odd bottle or simply follow the form guide of the star reds like Grange and Bin 707, there’s no more significant annual wine release from an Australian winery cellar. I ran some 2024 collection highlights in this column last year and, on the back of some enthusiastic feedback, here’s a more in-depth

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Easy drinking with Nick Stock

Nick Stock — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 21:00:00 +0000

Nick Stock is one of Australia’s most well-known and highly-regarded wine critics. He co-owns McLaren Vale’s favourite beach front bar and restaurant the Silver Sands Beach Club and The Old Bush Inn Hotel, Willunga’s “top pub.” Read more of Nick Stock’s work over at nickstock.com.au Riesling is a staple white wine of the South Australian summer and with the quality on offer it is no wonder this wine has a special place in the hearts of local wine lovers. We power through dozen after dozen down at Silver Sands Beach Club and in readiness for the summer season I’ve tasted through

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Easy drinking with Nick Stock

Nick Stock — Wed, 08 May 2024 23:00:00 +0000

Nick Stock is one of Australia’s most well-known and highly-regarded wine critics. He co-owns McLaren Vale’s favourite beach front bar and restaurant the Silver Sands Beach Club. Read more of Nick Stock’s work over at nickstock.com.au Yalumba is Australia’s oldest family-owned winery and later this year in November, they will officially celebrate their 175th birthday. Celebrations are underway already with special releases and events to mark this milestone, the first of which I was fortunate to attend at the winery on April 17th, a wine tasting like no other. There’s so much to say in the story of Yalumba, a household name

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Easy Drinking with Nick Stock

Nick Stock — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 03:21:14 +0000

Nick Stock is one of Australia’s most well-known and highly-regarded wine critics. He co-owns McLaren Vale’s favourite beach front bar and restaurant the Silver Sands Beach Club. Read more of Nick Stock’s work over at nickstock.com.au. The flurry of new releases at this end of the calendar means there are so many great choices and, as the entertainment season warms up, I’ve grabbed a bunch of bottles that are going to set you up nicely for the fun end of the year. The versatility and drinkable style of the best new wines we are seeing from South Australia’s cutting edge winemakers

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50 years of Redman Cabernet Sauvignon

Nick Stock — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 01:25:53 +0000

Nick Stock is one of Australia’s most well-known and highly-regarded wine critics. He opened McLaren Vale’s hottest new beachfront bar and restaurant the Silver Sands Beach Club in 2022. Read more of Nick Stock’s work over at nickstock.com.au Tasting fifty consecutive years of one single wine is not something that many wineries anywhere in the world can offer. Yet the Redman family in Coonawarra just opened their family museum collection to a small group of us in Melbourne recently and this will go down as one of the greatest and most memorable days in my life as a wine critic. They

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Easy Drinking with Nick Stock

Nick Stock — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 05:36:41 +0000

Nick Stock is one of Australia’s most well-known and highly-regarded wine critics. He opened McLaren Vale’s hottest new beachfront bar and restaurant the Silver Sands Beach Club in 2022. Read more of Nick Stock’s work over at nickstock.com.au. As much as I love summer and the beach and grilling outdoors, the swing to cooler weather and the quest for warmth and comfort means that red wine season is upon us and this is a moment every year that I enjoy so much. Not that I stop drinking reds through summer, they still have their place, but the richer and more full-bodied

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Easy Drinking with Nick Stock

Nick Stock — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:43:34 +0000

Nick Stock is one of Australia’s most well-known and highly-regarded wine critics. He opened McLaren Vale’s hottest new beachfront bar and restaurant the Silver Sands Beach Club late last year. Read more of Nick Stock’s work over at nickstock.com.au. Great wine, no matter what the style, can always carry an edge of refreshment, in fact it is often the thing that makes a wine stand out from the rest. No matter if it is a white, a red or a rosé, I always look for a refreshing edge and even more so at the business end of summer time. Refreshment

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Easy Drinking with Nick Stock

Nick Stock — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Nick Stock is one of Australia’s most well-known and highly-regarded wine critics. He opened McLaren Vale’s hottest new beach front bar and restaurant the Silver Sands Beach Club earlier this year. Read more of Nick Stock’s work over at nickstock.com.au. The warmer weather is finally here and that means entertaining heads outdoors and swings into classic South Australian summer vibes. We cook and eat such diverse flavours in SA and our culinary influences are so eclectic that the possibilities for wine matching are almost endless. But beyond the tried and tested food and wine matching combinations, we have evolved our thinking

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