Curiously enough, as a wine reviewer, you don't really get to regularly taste many 'value' wines. Yes, some producers send the whole range in for review, but on the whole, …
There's a slot in the Australian Wine and Drinks Review fridge where I always like to keep a classic white wine. Something for drinking, not tasting, that I'm going to …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here are 11 wines that almost made the silver medal, Australian Wine and Drinks Review …
Like many Aussies in July, we're seaside on an Indonesian island this week for a long-overdue winter escape. This is a very good thing, although it also means much less …
It’s that time again. Time to inspire me to spend more money on drinks, even though the WineArk cabinet can’t be closed properly, and the Amex is maxed out. So, what …
Are we at peak Pinot? Anecdotally, Pinot Noir is flying, with reports from producers (especially Victorians) that they can't make enough Pinot Noir (but Shiraz has slumped), a situation that has …
'Exhilarating Wines' was the name for yesterday's giant West Australian wine trade extravaganza, which saw 54 of the cream of WA's wineries land in Sydney for one day only. Exhilarating it …
New Zealand wine is booming. Besides a small dip in 2024 (when volumes went backwards by 12%), export volumes of Kiwi wines have increased by over 50% over the past …
Rust never sleeps here at Australian Wine and Drinks Review, which is why even on a long weekend trip to the nation's capital with Mrs Ozwinereview and our cherub, a …
When you're repping the wines from an entire wine region, every masterclass becomes political. What wines are in? Which appellations get the most love? Who is going to present it? For …
Forget scores, my favourite way to classify a wine is how many glasses I could drink. Faulty junk? Tip it down the sink. An overly sweet, but fascinating, fortified? A …
It’s that time again. Time to inspire me to spend more money on drinks, even though the WineArk cabinet can’t be closed properly, and the Amex is maxed out. So, what …
