Hot on the heels of this month's Almost Club (highlighting wines that didn't make the silver medal standard), here is a selection of ten wines that DID make it (if …
There so many wines out there that I hear about/keep meaning to try but never get there. Like the Phase Three Dero wines, as an example. Brendan Hilferty's Sparrow & …
Old Plains is part of Dom Torzi's stable of brands, in this case celebrating the old vines of the Adelaide Plains. The 'Plains' are very much a forgotten region in …
Full, ripe and bold Grenache that still retains red fruit vibrancy. That's the gist of this Chapel Hill The MV Bush Vine Grenache 2021, which is in a pretty good …
I loved Alex Head's top dog Ancestor Vine Grenache a month ago, and this isn't far behind (for a smidgen of the price). From 35-160yr old Barossan vines. Foot trod, all …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here is a collectin of 15 wines that almost made it in October 2022. As ever, …
I love these tastings, The Young Guns of Wine (YGOW) is an annual awards program designed to celebrate new/young wine producers. But YGOW has now expanded beyond the awards to a …
Alex Head dropped this, and a pack of other Grenache, around in person a few weeks back, purely to get into the Grenache Day vibe (which started back here). I'm …
Want to know what the best part about wine show judging is? The judge's dinner. That's because the judging is less glamorous than you'd think. Often, it's a mouth-destroying slog, with …
I jumped the gun with my original International Grenache Day post a few weeks back, so here is another super wine on the actual Grenache Day. This Yangarra Ovitelli Grenache …
International Grenache Day 2022 is September 16th. I had to Google that, because all I had written down was 'late September'. And after tasting through the bracket of Grenache below, …
If you had to pick a single wine style that is most highly coveted in the Graham household, it is the early drinking red. Pinot, Grenache, Gamay, some Tempranillo, a …
Not enough serious Australian rosé passes the Australian Wine Review bench. This Rogers & Rufus Rosé 2021 is an exception. From the Yalumba/Sam Smith stable and based on Barossa Grenache rosé …
I never miss this tasting. Every year, the Sydney Royal Wine Show throws open the doors for a trade/exhibitor tasting of all everything entered into what is one of Australia's famous, …
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. But then, I fell in love with wine and craft beer, and it took over my life.
Twenty three years later and I spend my days wearing many beverage hats and judge at wine shows around the world...Read more