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, …
'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 …
Australian Shiraz is a much more diverse world than it gets credit for. Globally, there is still this shortsighted assumption that Barossa Shiraz is what our entire continent makes, as if …
There’s an excellent viral video floating around at the moment that shows how a single drop of whisky can kill millions of bacteria. My body is typically fuelled by wine and …
Before we start on this wine, the regional commentary on it's brother wine stands yet again. Someone argue me down about Orange's Bordeaux grape focus, yeah? This Signature Range Left …
February is the best month of the year. Fact. Sure, it's short, often stupidly humid and hot here in Sydney, but it's my birthday month, so obviously, it's pretty good. This …
After Friday's post about $100+ Champagne, today I want to highlight how much wine you can get for $35 or more. This collection has a simple motive - purely flavoursome …
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 …
Let's get this out of the way first - yes, the new Coleraine is great. I had the pleasure of tasting the first Te Mata Coleraine a few years back …
I clicked over to 43 years on the planet last week, which is always an excuse to open all the wines. It's now 24 years in the wine/drink industry for me, …
Despite all the wine industry's rhetoric around terroir and how 'wines are made in the vineyard', there's still too much evidence about how systems and processes in the winery are …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just 'ok drinks', and some are just bad… Here is a collection of 19 wines that almost made it in September and October …
