As I mentioned last week, the theme for November is to open as many things as possible. And part of that journey involves a plethora of wines that are all …
I have too much wine. This sounds like the most first-world plea for help in history (please, someone crack out the micro violin), but at the moment I have too much …
It's a wine tasting format that I wish more Australian winemakers would embrace. Winemaker A, usually from the New World (or a less fancied producer/appellation), puts their wines up against global …
Coonawarra celebrates 130 years of winemaking this year. That's a handy innings for any wine region, let alone here in the colonies. 130 years is also long enough to get …
It felt like an old mate returning home when a few bottles of Holm Oak wines lob up on the Australian Wine and Drinks Review doorstep. It's been a few …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here are 30 wines that almost made the silver medal grade in March 2025. From …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here are 30 wines that almost made the silver medal grade in September 2024. From …
A bigger version of this Terre à Terre Franc in 2022, and it's an age off being ready to drink. It's a wine to stick in the cellar and forget …
Variations on a theme. A Yarra Cab Franc theme. Just 53 cases produced of this Franc, with all of the fruit from the original Squitchy Block in the Gruyère part …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Plenty of the wines in this collection of last month's wines that almost hit the …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here is a collection of x wines that almost made it in December 2023 and …
Let's get stuck into the sample pile for 2024, eh! The Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Cabernet Franc 2021 is Xavier Bizot & Lucy Croser's Wrattonbully Franc, sourced from the …
