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 …
Puglian Primitivo can be delicious. But mostly it's either a bit too ripe and Zin-light (which is a serious trend), or it's a lean, and lightly herbal dry red. Sometimes …
It always surprises me how much interesting Italian wine come to Australia. Loads of it. The only problem is that much of the best doesn't leave the 'on-premise' (restaurants and bars) …
For this week's sample pile raid I've focused on premium red wines from McLaren Vale, including a whole swathe of new '13 reds. Always interesting to look at a horizontal like …
Inkwell Wines Infidels Primitivo 2013 Dudley from Inkwell calls Primitivo his 'little obsession', praising this as a more structured iteration compared to previous years. Wild fermented, this spent 19 months in 28% …
2013 Inkwell releases I'm glad I tried these wines before I met their maker, Dudley Brown. I say that purely because it's harder to be completely objective once you meet a winemaker, …
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