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 …
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, …
This is the third in a series of pieces that I'm republishing that were previously print-only. I loved putting together this feature for all the interesting and very human stories …
I still don't see the word Dynamic anywhere on the bottle of this Taltarni Dynamic Shiraz Viognier 2020. Maybe it's an internal thing? Anyway, this is ripe Pyrenees red in …
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 …
Will it ever stop raining? That's the question this week in Sydney, where mushrooms are growing on mushrooms, and floods are the buzzword everywhere. Everyone is tired of the rain, or …
From the almosts to the always. These are twenty of the most impressive Shiraz and Syrah to pass the desk during November 2021. What I like most when I scan down this …
Never shy are these Blue Pyrenees reds, and this Blue Pyrenees Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2018 screams its origins. Nothing wrong with that either. Spearmint, dark berries, some eucalypt, minty firm tannins. …
Pyrenean or Pyreneean? Both sound dangerously close to perineum. Anyway, that's the only lingering question about this Blue Pyrenees Estate Shiraz 2018, which is a poster child for what makes …
I didn't mention it when talking about the Shiraz, but interesting to note that (like the Balgownie) this is another wine that is rolling out 'old vine' on the label. …
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 …
A fascinating wine to taste in context of the other Taltarni reds. This Taltarni Reserve Shiraz Cabernet 2019 is so achingly backward, so future-focussed that it's a hard wine to …
I'm still confused by the heirachy here, as there is this Taltarni Estate Shiraz 2018 and a Taltarni Estate Old Vine Shiraz 2019. They look the same too. It's not …
Robert Heywood (Taltarni winemaker) has really transformed the recent releases of Taltarni. Gone is the overripeness, and instead there is a sense of regionality. One key difference is extraction - …
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