Between the excellent Lanson duo, this Pommery Louise and another bottle of the excellent Roger Coulon from the cellar, there has been a pleasing amount of fancy Champagne at Graham …
It goes ok, thanks very much. The first-ever Mumm Tasmania release is pretty good really, even if I want a bit more flavour. Made as part of the Mumm terroir …
Australia loves Champagne. In fact, we're the 6th biggest export market in the world, with 10 million bottles landing on our shores annually. Historically, however, we tend to drink mostly …
The Burch family at Howard Park are dead serious about sparkling wine, with this the latest output from their fizz journey. Fascinating. Making premium sparkling in Australia seems like a thankless gig …
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, …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here is a selection of 48 wines that almost made it in August 2022. With this …
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, …
While wine industry events are slowly kicking back into life now that the pandemic threat has peaked, it's still far from the old days (i.e., in 2019). Back then, there would …
I’m back across the Great Dividing Range again, swapping the cool and dry of Canberra for endless moistness here in Sydney. Before I left our nation’s capital there was a final …
I haven't been opening anywhere near enough fizz lately. Maybe it's because I've taken my eye off the bubbles train. Or maybe it's a lack of celebrations/excuses to open fizz. Maybe …
We don't get out much anymore (small child + COVID), so when a birthday/excuse to celebrate comes up, it's an opportunity to drink and eat well. On Saturday, I turned 41, …
Welcome to 2022! Taking out the recycling over the past few days reminded me that a) I drink plenty of beer b) there were some seriously fine wines opened over the …
It's been a little quiet here at Australian Wine Review over the past week and a bit, as I've been head down judging this year's Australian Wine List of the …
I'd rather drink beer than most cheap Australian sparkling wines. Or Riesling. But there's a small cohort of bubbles worth consideration. This Taltarni Brut 2015 is one of them. In fact, …
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