Australia rise to prominence in the UK and increasingly the USA is driven by a relenting style of super hygienic and ultra clean wines, bursting with fruit. This style is both very popular and provides a consistency missed in many old world countries, particular at entry and medium priced wines.

In recent years Australia has been repositioning itself, less about cheap well made wines, to more premium wines by focusing on regions rather than wines labeled as from South Eastern Australia.

Apart from South Eastern Australia a region made up of wines produced in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, Most wine regions are within a State boundaries, and it is these wines that are the most interesting. The key region by volume is South Australia with Barossa and Mclaren Vale the key quality regions.

The Victoria state with its cool growing areas of Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley are the home for much of Australis better Poinot Noir while the northerly fortified wines from Rutherglen have always had a good reputation.

Margret River is the key region in Western Australia making a range of varities Shiraz, cabernet Sauvignon and Smeillion whcih it shares with New South Wales's Hunter Valley. ALthough hunter Valley Semillion are none to age much better.

Tasmania has been gaining a reputation for their sparkling wines, and Queensland has been slowly carving out a name for itself in the inland cooler Granite belt which uses altitude to help keep the temperature within wines growing range.