How strange that this Hewitson Ungrafted Grenache 2022 is such a different beast to the Monopole from last week. Here, we have the lucid beauty of old vine Grenache in …
This is Eden Valley Syrah done with a sense of freshness. Fermented in old milk vats, and given a short stint in used oak, the Torzi Matthews Francesca Grillo Collina …
Lots of Barossan pleasure in the Hewitson range, particularly at the affordable end. Bold and proudly Barossan But the more premium wines so often end up a bit oaky and …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here is a collection of 27 wines that almost made it in May and June …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Sometimes, you just need a wine of volume. Something luscious, indulgent, dense and cosseting. Something like a 14%+ Australian Shiraz. On a thousand per cent humidity Sydney January day, I don't …
It's easy to dismiss wines like this Small Gully Wines Black Magic Shiraz 2018 as something contrived. A 16.4% alcohol monster that should be turned into port rather than table …
