Sometimes, you just need a wine of volume. Something luscious, indulgent, dense and cosseting. Something like a 14%+ Australian Shiraz. On a thousand per cent humidity Sydney January day, I don't …
It's easy to dismiss wines like this Small Gully Wines Black Magic Shiraz 2018 as something contrived. A 16.4% alcohol monster that should be turned into port rather than table …
Matt Burton draws fruit from all over the countryside for the Gundog label and it helps deliver all sorts of oddities. This Gundog Estate Hilltops Shiraz No. 2 2021 comes …
December through to February are the big drinking months here at Australian Wine Review HQ. Peak drinking season. Sure, there is something open every day on the tasting bench, but …
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, …
In the modern era, where obvious oak is less desirable - even in full-tilt Barossa Shiraz - Yalumba's Octavius seems like an outlier. I mean, the Yalumba Octavius Shiraz 2017 …
This Chapel Hill The MV Shiraz 2021 is exactly what most McLaren Vale Shiraz drinkers want. A huge expanse of purple fruit, in a silken wave of chunky ripeness. Gleefully …
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 …
Matt Burton has made a few Shiraz from the Hilltops in recent years, and they offer a good counterpoint to the mid-weight Hunter Gundog wines and the sometimes lavish Canberra …
What a great word archetypal is. Although it's one of those words that annoying wine writers like me use, but most normal humans would never put in a sentence. 'Yeah, Matt …
I have a small mountain of rosé to open at casa di Graham because everyone is making pink stuff now (and so much of it is somewhere between gross and …
LuLu, or maybe it's Lu Lu Barossa Shiraz. I've seen it with both. Choose your adventure. Anyway, from a 'cooler' Barossa Valley site (which feels like a bit of a misnomer …
While Meerea Park has the 'Black' ultra-premium $500 Shiraz in the range now, Alexander Munro is still the flagship red from the Eather boys in my books. This is very much …
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