The wildly drinkable Tokar Estate Carafe & Tumbler Pinot Shiraz 2020
This Tokar Estate Carafe & Tumbler Pinot Shiraz 2020 is, very simply, a good drink. It shouldn't need to be anything else. Especially with the name of 'Carafe and Tumbler'. No, …
This Tokar Estate Carafe & Tumbler Pinot Shiraz 2020 is, very simply, a good drink. It shouldn't need to be anything else. Especially with the name of 'Carafe and Tumbler'. No, …
The premise with this collection is very very simple - I've been hitting the sample pile hard over the past week or two, and these 30 wines were not only …
I love it when interesting new wines from unknown wineries (to me at least) turn up at the door. It's like wine Christmas. Brackenwood is a vineyard at Kuitpo in the …
It's 3 days late I know, but here are a few wines that almost hit the mark this month. Some are just good, simple drinks. Others are genuinely average to …
Jacob's Creek Le Petit Rosé 2016 It's not widely known, but Jacob's Creek has a fulltime sensory scientist on staff (or at least it did when I visited a few years …
Some very brief highlights from Rootstock 2016 I only managed a single morning session at Rootstock 2016 (the sustainable wine/food fair - see previous iterations here or here) this year, mainly because I …
You always know when a wine is made in small quantities as there is no barcode in sight. That's certainly the case with David Lloyd's Eldridge Estate wines, most of …
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
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