Mrs Ozwinereview and I don't get many chances for sans-child dining anymore, so on those very rare occasions when the small child goes away, we tend to eat/drink all of …
#ChardoMay is over. Bring out the red wine! Seriously though, It's been a pleasure to up my Australian Chardonnay levels this month, if just to remind how good we have it …
It's been quieter here at Australian Wine and Drinks Review over the past week, with a continued sprinkling of chaos introduced into the daytime projects to make my life fun/entertaining/shithouse. That …
We're now at the halfway mark of Chardonnay May, and I can confirm I'm not tired of the noble grape yet. Instead, despite the roughest weeks in yonks outside of this …
May/June is one of the peak periods for samples arriving at Casa Graham, with new-release reds and barrel-aged whites from the previous harvest (ie 2022) all landing on the doorstep. …
We don't talk about Margaret River sub-regions all that much in Australian wine. That's perhaps because, outside of Wilyabrup, the different areas don't have dominant identities. Sure, it could just …
It's not been the triumphant 15th birthday week I had envisioned here at Casa Graham, with a few rough nights and a bit of chaos on a key 'daytime' project …
You know what irks me about the modern rosé boom? How many of the wines end up with frustratingly harsh acidity. Sure, such is life when you're early picking red wine …
Before we get into the next instalment of 'What Chardonnay is Andrew opening for #ChardoMay today', a question - why isn't Hunter Valley Semillon more popular? In a country where dropping …
As I mentioned yesterday, the month of May on Australian Wine and Drinks Review will be focused on Chardonnay, with a large pile of wines on the bench ready to …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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