The Almost Club September 2024 edition – 30 wines that almost made it this month
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 …
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 …
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 …
I love these tastings, The Young Guns of Wine (YGOW) is an annual awards program designed to celebrate new/young wine producers. But YGOW has now expanded beyond the awards to a …
Ahhh, the perpetual love-hate relationship. I love textural white wines so much, with the intoxicating sensuality of a mouthfilling Gewurz or the absorbing contrasts of a classic Bordeaux blend something bloody …
I seem to be flooded with whites wines at Graham HQ at the moment. Not a bad thing when it's 29C outside (like it was yesterday) of course... Here then is …
While I am slowly wearing down the mountain of samples that have arrived at Graham HQ over the past few weeks, it has still required frequent raiding, and today's target …
The best encore of all - Lethbridge's Dr Nadeson Riesling returns This wine wasn't meant to come back. A few years back the owners of the Barrett vineyard in Portland, Victoria, decided to …
The Story Henty Pinot Noir 201213.5%, Screwcap, $40 Take a bow Rory 'Story' Lane (again). Rory is making the sort of wines that I would want to be making, in the styles …
The Story Henty Riesling 2013 (Henty, Vic) 12%, Screwcap, $25Source: Sample www.thestory.com.au Rory Story (Rory Lane according to his driver's license) wrote 'big impact' in white ink on the side of this bottle, …
Lethbridge Dr Nadeson Riesling 2012 (Henty, Vic 11%, Screwcap, $30 Source: Sample www.lethbridgewines.com There is a tinge of sadness in the winery notes for this Rizza, as it will apparently be the last Lethbridge Riesling …
10 x 20 years tasting - a plethora of Victorian goodies 'Ten Victorian vineyards - established, owned and run by ten passionate families. Ten families that have invested in an individual site …
The Riesling brothers in action outside Fix St James Early highlights from the Summer of Riesling This week marks the start of the Summer of Riesling (#summerofriesling on twitter), a season long …
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