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Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... Fly in the Conclave ointment ... Claims to have been forgiven by Pope Francis ... Doubts about his entitlement to vote ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome ... Read more >> 

"We're in unchartered territory here. A Pope hasn't died before during an Australian election campaign."  

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Letter from Rome ... Judges on strike ... Too much "reform" ... Berlusconi legacy ... Referendum on the way ... Constitutional court inflames the Meloni regime with decision on boat people ... Insults galore ... Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 


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Tea is for Tippy ... Life of a tiffstaff ... Bright, ambitious and, when it comes to the crucial things, hopeless ... Milking the glory of the gig ...  Introducing Tippy, our new blogger filing from within the concrete cage at Queens Square ... From Justinian's Archive, March 15, 2010 ...  Read more >> 


 

 

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There's another world beyond law and lawyering ... and here you can find it: reviews, wine notes, interviews, and unpacking the human condition.  

Critics' Corner: reviews of books, films and TV by Worm, I. Box and Miss Lumière.
Déjà Vu: marvellous slices of history from Justinian's bulging archive.
I Once Met ... Prominent and unusual people encourtered by our readers and contributors. 
JustyFlix: our film crew covers the most glittering events on the calendar. 
On the Couch: where notable notables bear their souls. 
Wendler on Wine: spectacular wine reviews, gargling and spitting from barrister Gabriel Wendler.  


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Entries in Wine (13)

Tuesday
Feb272024

Veneto Verona Vino

Know your Valpolicellas ... Justinian's wine correspondent let loose in the vineyards of Veneto ... Thomas Becket and Mozart get together ... The perfect drop with stew and polenta ... Lots going on in the mouth ... Gabriel Wendler gets back to Italy  

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Tuesday
Sep122023

Larceny and fine wine

Wine thievery is all the rage ... Expensive bottles lifted from their rightful owners ... Product that is easily on-sold or fenced ... Top end drops now snugly located in Sydney's legal district, under lock n' key ... Justinian's wine reporter Gabriel Wendler is on the case 

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Wednesday
Feb082023

Wendler goes West

Margaret River wines ... Big names and garagiste operators ... Doctors and their vines ... "Bigness" beckons ... Wine writer Gabriel Wendler's month in the bush 

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Saturday
Sep042021

Vintage pandemic

Spanish Flu and Covid-19 ... War and contagion ... Consequences for wine grape harvests ... European and Australian vintages in 1919-1920 compared to  2020-2021 ... Australia's bounteous 2021 wine grape crush ... Excellent fruit all around ... First world issues ... Wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler writes 

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Tuesday
Nov032020

Tbilisi uncorked

A ripping yarn ... Stalin and the Tsar's wine cellar ... Adventures in Georgia with George and Nino ... Hunting for Chateau d'Yquem ... Justinian's wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler recalls a lasting taste memory ... History and geography ... Raiders of the Lost Wine 

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Thursday
May302019

Love of the French

Distress that Australia's great wine commentator and educator celebrated his birthday with a selection of French wines ... Born in the wrong year ... Discrimination ... What's wrong with local wines for a well-deserved celebratory toast? ... Gabriel Wendler stirs up a storm in a wine glass ... Epistle to a Burgundian 

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Monday
Jul232018

The lawyer as wine tourist

Wine man Gabriel Wendler visits the extraordinary Thomas Hardy Wine Library in Adelaide and d'Arenberg's Cube at McLaren Vale ... One of the great wine book collections in the world, while The Cube makes a big impact on the Southern Vales 

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Tuesday
Dec052017

Concerning Champagne

Champagne - a product as much driven by marketing and legend as by the content of the bottle ... Ten myths exploded in a new critique of the bubbly libation ... Justinian's wine man G.D. Wendler explains, just in time for Christmas  

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Tuesday
Jun162015

Viticulture in Van Diemen's Land

Lawyers and the grape ... Guy Green and William Cox - Tasmania's vine growing chief justices, who managed not to produce any wine ... Gabriel Wendler reviews a painstaking history of Tasmanian wine 

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Monday
Dec092013

In the matter of wine

For holiday reading Justinian's wine man Gabriel Wendler recommends Jonathan Nossiter's Liquid Memory - Why Wine Matters ... A deconstruction of wine guides and the points system ... Loves and hates exposed ... A wine romp 

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