This May on Australian Wine and Drinks Review, you're going to see a shedload of Chardonnay. In recent weeks what started as a conversation about World Chardonnay Day on May 25th, …
On Monday, it was a flood of reviews on wines that didn't make the Australian Wine Review grade (which is a silver medal equivalent). But today, we have less snark, …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here is a collection of 15 wines that almost made it in March and April …
The number one role of wine is to be a delicious beverage. The end. Yet so often, fancy wine ends lost in itself, trying to be a serious intellectual pursuit when …
One of my first wine loves was a Clare Valley red. It was a mid-90s Leasingham Classic Clare Shiraz, and I was excited. It felt, well, different. Different to the more …
Right, let's get back into the sample pile, hey? I have so much respect for what the Pooley family have done with their eponymous brand, taking it from a hobby plot …
Within the first eight minutes out on the streets of Canberra, I saw a dude on an e-scooter almost cleanup a pedestrian on the footpath. Welcome back to Australia's capital city! These …
Tim Smith's wines are typically well-received at Graham HQ, with his generously textured reds a particular highlight. I'm here to report that his new Tim Smith Wines Mataro 2022 & Tim …
No, you weren't seeing things, Australian Wine and Drinks Review was down for a good 36 hours after my hosting change dragged on for an anxiety-inducing period (I was in …
Maybe it was the idyllic, lily-topped pond glimmering to the left. Maybe it was the proudly untidy grass sprawling out underneath the grapevines. Or maybe it was just how green …
Close followers of this site will know how popular Riesling is on this site, even to the point where I've been accused of having a 'Riesling bias'. I'll wear that with …
What were you doing at 12 years old? Besides listening to lots of Pearl Jam and Nirvana and watching cricket, I probably wasn't achieving much. But Sebastian Atkins-Davis is already four …
Let's get stuck into another non-wine drink, eh? Yesterday we forayed into beer here on the new-look Australian Wine and Drinks Review (which I'm calling AWDR). Today, to continue the drinks …
Did you notice something different when landing on the site this week? I've tweaked the name of this little site just before we hit the fifteenth birthday in May. Welcome to …
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
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