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 …
We don't go out sans child anywhere near enough here at Australian Wine Review HQ, so when my lovely, long suffering partner and I get out together - and my …
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, …
You know what I like about this new Zema Estate Saluti Cabernet Shiraz 2016? It tastes like a Zema red, just more luscious and more immoveable. Released to commemorate forty years …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here is a collectin of 15 wines that almost made it in October 2022. As ever, …
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 …
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 …
I was banging on yesterday about a pack of inexpensive Aldi exclusive wines that looked great for the dollars. This El Toro Macho Reserva 2016 is one that rose above …
Did someone say a vertical of Barolo? At a wine dinner? In Australia? Such an occasion is like finding a unicorn shitting rainbows, so when the invite came through from the …
We're a little down on celebrations here at Australian Wine Review HQ of late, with illness putting a temporary dampener on festivities. Still, it was my dad's 70th on the weekend, …
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 …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ok drinks. And some are just bad... Here is a selection of wines that almost made it in April 2022. What's always important, …
I was thinking just this week that I didn't declare what my wine of the year was. There was no ceremony. No trophy, nor a jumbo cheque with my face …
Each time I taste another well made 'alternative' variety from the King Valley I thank phylloxera. That's because, when everyone's nightmare grape louse swept through the region between 1991 and 1995, …
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
