Let's get 2023 kicked off properly, hey? Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here is a collection of 23 wines that …
Happy New Year! Now that the weather here in Sydney has gone from 'glorious' to 'typically wet January shit', it's time for the first look at the laptop in 2023. Yeah, …
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 …
It's easy to think that everyone is entranced by terroir, dreams about Burgundy and knows that Montalcino and Montepulciano involve different grapes. Yet the sheer reality is that most people …
Now that Semillon Sauvignon Blanc blends have lost their commercial lustre here in Australia, we've also seen less of the serious Bordeaux blanc-style blends as well. This Terre à Terre …
It's easy to get blase about Sauvignon Blanc - a variety that so often is treated like an alcohol delivery system rather than a serious wine. Yet Shaw + Smith …
Escape Room is the new label from the Chapel Hill team focused on fun reds and whites. This Escape Room Sauvignon Blanc 2021 is one of my favourites from the …
I was banging on last week about the quality of the Greywacke range for what Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc can achieve in the right hands. This Deep Down Sauvignon Blanc 2021 …
A pleasure to see these new Greywacke 2022 releases land on the doorstep recently, reminding me that I haven't been to New Zealand in years (when it was once an …
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, …
After 3 long, COVID-interrupted years, today saw the return of the famed Shaw + Smith Yum Cha lunch. This (normally) annual event sees the S + S team dispatched to different …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just 'ok drinks', and some are just bad… Here is a selection of 13 wines that almost made it in May 2022. An important …
Today was the tasting of the Young Gun of Wine Awards (YGOW) finalists for 2022, with 31 'young' producers opening their wares for the trade. YGOW is a an initiative spearheaded …
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