A fine vintage

Wendler on Wine    Friday, April 17, 2026

Wine with Anthony Mason … Jurist and oenophile … Vintage years for wines and for the High Court … Wednesday lunches at Balmoral … Guide to stealing a Mercedes-Benz… Justinian’s wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler reflects on a friendship

 

Veneto Verona Vino

Wendler on Wine    Tuesday, February 27, 2024

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

 

Wrap of the Lehrmann defamation trial

Court in the Act    Monday, January 8, 2024

Written closing submissions in Lehrmann defamation proceedings … Claim of Network Ten’s “confirmation bias” … Evidence of applicant and Brittany Higgins both said to be dishonest … Lehrmann wants substantial damages, even sexual intercourse is established … Lehrmann’s denials amount to “utterly wicked” conduct … From Stephen Murray, Courts Editor for the Gazette of Law & Journalism