Drink Victorian

Your guide to what’s in the glass, with the duo behind Geelong’s Mulline Vintners.

Sober crusader T.I.N.A returns with a delicate new sparkling tea.

Victorian drinks company Marionette adds a floral note to their bouquet of colourful local liqueurs.

Neighbourhood Group drinks boss Gus Gluck on the Victorian wine region that rivals Burgundy.

Talking community and cocktails with Calypso Wine Party impresaria Claudelle Savannah.

The latest product from chef-turned-drinks-man Dave Verheul takes his knack for clever aperitivi and adds a little fizz.

The drinks boss of Circl Wine House weighs in on what’s growing, ageing and pouring well in the state of Victoria.  

Talking Victorian whisky, amari and splishy splashy highballs with Dan’s Daily editor in chief, Lara Chan-Baker.

There’s a time for crisp lagers and refreshing sours. There’s a time for double oatmeal stouts. There’s also a time for something in the middle, and that time is right now.

Your guide to what’s drinking well in the state of Victoria, with Windsor Group drinks boss Coralie Gelot.

Wham, bam, a mighty list of artisanal drams. We surveyed Victoria’s chief drinks people and these are the 17 spirits they think you need on your bar cart right now.

Don’t mind you a claret? Here are 21 rippers you should consider cracking into this weekend, according to Victoria’s savviest drinks people.

There’s a tasty new Victorian amaro on the block, and it’s helping fight waste by using spent citrus peel.

Our resident drinks expert Professor Drinks, aka Cara Devine, returns with three cracking Victorian non-alcoholic drinks.

Isn’t it time you drank a gin inspired by the flavours of Thailand?

There’s collabs and then there’s collabs. In that second category – the kind that makes you sit up and take notice – you’ll find a new adventure that Attica has embarked upon with Melbourne kombucha kings Remedy.

It’s not coffee, it’s not tea, it’s not an energy drink and it’s not kombucha. It’s maté.

“The wines are very much of their place but are at the same time unpretentious, honest and even sometimes a bit whimsical,” says Clare Burder, “a bit like me, even.”

Good news: it’s just gone cocktail o’clock wherever good times are had; here’s what you want to be stirring this summer in the apéritifs category .

Our panel of wine experts has a list of the best Victorian rosé for your summer drinking.

It’s summertime, Melbourne, and the drinking is fizzy.

Melissa Brauer’s fascination with Italian wine began two decades ago, but it was in 2010 during a trip to Italy when her love for prosecco really took off.

North Wine’s Etienne Mangier believes wine is better with bubbles, and his fleet of excellent sparkling is hard proof he’s in the right game.

Mike Bennie is one of Australia’s pre-eminent drinks guys – here he is with his favourite Victorian drinks.

Over the last decade, Melbourne’s beloved west has become a magnet for cocktail, craft beer and natural wine drinkers alike.

It’s inspired by founders Jacqui Henshaw and Keith Smith’s memories of the Great Ocean Road and it’s distilled right here in Victoria’s Macedon Ranges.

Shaun Byrne is the director of two of Victoria’s most happening and awarded beverage brands.

Dollar Bill Brewing co-owner Fiona Nolle with everything she recommends drinking in the great state of Victoria.

Emily Kinsman is the woman behind ECK Wines, a label that takes fruit from the Macedon Ranges and transforms it into modern wines informed by the tastes and traditions of the past.

Rob Kabboord might be a chef but he knows his beers.

In a old motor garage in Koroit lies a craft brewery and distillery called Noodledoof.

Gerald’s Bar’s Alice Diffey is back at her father’s Carlton North institution, and this time, she’s running the show.

Nothing engages the senses quite like the humble beer.

Congratulations, you have selected perhaps the richest bar crawl of this series.