The continuing refinement of Longview's Adelaide Hills Nebbiolo has been very welcome. This new Longview Saturnus Nebbiolo 2019 is an even more Pinot-like example (and it's delicious). Correct colour - washed-out …
Home grown Australian sparkling doesn't get the love it deserves. And wines like this Daosa Blanc de Blanc 2016 show it. More table wine with bubbles than aperitif Champagne style, but …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ok drinks. And some are just bad. Here is a selection of wines that almost made it in July and August 2021. Sometimes …
It's very muc big Shiraz week here at Australian Wine Review, so let's introduce in a more medium weight iteration of a top dog Adelaide Hills Shiraz - the new …
This is the entry point for the range, but with this Tapanappa Piccadilly Chardonnay 2020, Brian (Croser) has delivered a wine that is anything but simple. It's not specified, but the …
Meadows sounds like such a beautiful place. Disappointing there aren't that enough meadows at Meadows, although it is a flatter (and attractive) part of the Adelaide Hills. This Karawatta Dairy Block …
Adelaide Hills Pinot Gris from the early drinking arm of the Shaw & Smith empire. That's The Other Wine Co. Pinot Gris 2020 in a sentence. The wine works too. I …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ok drinks. And some are just bad. Here is a selection of wines that almost made it in May and June 2021. We're …
Again, Shaw + Smith deliver the goods with this new 2019 Shiraz & 2020 Chardonnay. Both wines are too young, the Chardonnay positively pre-pubescent, but that's probably the only quibble. …
Cabernet is probably the least appreciated grape in the Graham household, even though I have a cellar full of Margaret River, Coonawarra & Hawke's Bay reds. Cab's unpopularity is purely a …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ok drinks. And some are just bad. Here is a selection of wines that almost made it in March 2021. You can …
I seem to be flooded with whites wines at Graham HQ at the moment. Not a bad thing when it's 29C outside (like it was yesterday) of course... Here then is …
January is a little slower for wine deliveries to the Australian Wine Review PO Box, as most local vignerons are either on holidays, preparing for vintage, or picking grapes. That means …
This is great dry Australian rosé. More importantly, it's delicious. Apparently the key here is the clone, with 1-11 tagged as the rosato clone. Early ripening, nice aromatics. Fits the bill. This …
At 18, I started working in a small suburban bottleshop, largely to buy cheap beer. It was my first year of university, slogging through physics and chemistry, so a liquor shop seemed like fun. Needless to say, I discovered wine, and my life evolved with a unique dual focus - wine and the environment.
Twenty one years later and I spend my days wearing many (wine) hats, mostly as a writer, presenter and marketer. and judge at wine shows around the world...Read more