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Bo.lan – Dylan Jones and Bo Songvisava’s Bangkok restaurant – helped redefine fine dining in the Thai capital. A decade and one Covid-19 pandemic later, the couple are hatching bold plans for their flagship, starting with not reopening the restaurant. But don’t be alarmed. They’re closing Bo.lan for a very good reason.

“Things have changed”. So says Patrick Sullivan, a forward-thinking farmer and winemaker whose idiosyncratic wines are often name-checked in the discussion of new Australian wine. For Sullivan, great wine begins with great grapes, and the producers he respects make wines that honestly and deliciously reflect where they are grown. His hit-list of names to look out for is a mix of the big-name and the small, the emerging and established. It is a snapshot of everything that’s great about Australia’s vibrant wine landscape.