Before we talk about how this Domaine A Cabernet Sauvignon 2012 tastes, a question. Do you like Tasmanian Cabernet? More importantly, would you buy it? That's the question I always wonder …
I love these tastings, The Young Guns of Wine (YGOW) is an annual awards program designed to celebrate new/young wine producers. But YGOW has now expanded beyond the awards to a …
As the name suggests, here are 10 of the better Chardonnay to have passed the Australian Wine Review desk in recent weeks. I tried to keep this as a 'Top 10' …
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, …
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 …
Breathe out, it's holiday time. I'm in Noosa this week, for a family holiday that has been postponed twice in the last 18 months (thanks to COVID). It's easy to love this …
While Tasmania's MONA museum is one of the country's must-visit destinations, can I recommend that you pop next door to see the Moorilla winery too? It's a work of art. It's …
What do you think of the label on this new Apogee Alto Pinot Noir 2020? When I first saw it I thought 'golden ticket'. Hard to photograph too (and I'm a …
I haven't been opening anywhere near enough fizz lately. Maybe it's because I've taken my eye off the bubbles train. Or maybe it's a lack of celebrations/excuses to open fizz. Maybe …
This needed to happen, really. After last week's list of the Top 4 wines of 2021 was so bluntly biased to unaffordability (would you like the $350 Cab Shiraz of the …
Welcome to 2022! Taking out the recycling over the past few days reminded me that a) I drink plenty of beer b) there were some seriously fine wines opened over the …
Broad vintage generalisations anywhere are fraught with danger. They're so problematic given just how much a harvest can vary from variety to variety and vineyard to vineyard. Like 2011 in …
Chardonnay - aka the king of white wines (which makes Riesling the queen) - gets pride of place in the Graham household, regularly jumping the barrier from 'tasting' to 'drinking' …
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