It's a mouthful but a good name - Fowles Ladies Who Shoot Their Lunch Wild Ferment Shiraz 2019. Matt Fowles has co-authored a book on wine and friendship called Weekends …
Want to know what the best part about wine show judging is? The judge's dinner. That's because the judging is less glamorous than you'd think. Often, it's a mouth-destroying slog, with …
This is great. A great wine and a great drink - and all at 13.5% alcohol. So what's the secret of the Yangarra King’s Wood Shiraz 2020? It obviously starts in …
This Bugalugs by Tim Smith Barossa Shiraz 2021 nails the $28 Barossan red brief. Plush, driven by silken ripe, chocolate nibbed, sweet-fruited flavour that fills your mouth with rounded textures. …
Call me cynical, but I don't quite track the hype behind this Hewitson Monopole Shiraz 2019. This is the winery blurb for the fruit source. 'The Monopole vineyard is exclusively owned and …
I feel like it's a perpetual statement, but Dom Torzi knows how to make a textural red. This Torzi Matthews 1920 Single Vineyard Angaston Village Shiraz 2021 is another case …
If you had to pick a single wine style that is most highly coveted in the Graham household, it is the early drinking red. Pinot, Grenache, Gamay, some Tempranillo, a …
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, …
Frost Dodger. Such an evocative name. It's a nod to the source of this wine - Dom Torzi & Tracy Matthew's frost-prone vineyard at Mt McKenzie in the Eden Valley. Marginal …
There was a welcome visitor yesterday with Matt East, of Rouleur Wine Co. dropping by for a chat with a whole bag of new 2021 releases in tow. Long-time readers of …
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 …
Sorry, but I couldn't help myself - this new Torzi Matthews Schist Rock Shiraz 2021 is another winner. Following in the footsteps of other highlights like the 2020 or the 2018 …
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