Wine, Etc.: Wolf Blass wines among Australia's best

Do you remember that as a kid you were curious about anything your parents said was bad for you? That was the case for Chris Hatcher, who was told by his father - a Methodist minister - that wine was evil. Then his older sister won a bottle in a raffle and, too young to drink it, put her winnings on the shelf for Chris to examine with typical child curiosity.

We don't know what happened to that bottle, but we do know that Chris grew up to become one of Australia's top winemakers. Parents are sometimes wrong, right?

Chris has been senior winemaker at Wolf Blass for a decade and his wines from the Barossa are...