Having fun literal names for your wines is a problematic exercise. That's because wine is an inherently conservative business, where any attempt at being less serious eventually gets punished. Ben Luker …
Last week, it was a flood of reviews on wines that didn’t make the Australian Wine Review grade (which is a silver medal equivalent) over the past eight weeks. But …
Let's get 2023 kicked off properly, hey? Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here is a collection of 23 wines that …
Today was the tasting of the Young Gun of Wine Awards (YGOW) finalists for 2022, with 31 'young' producers opening their wares for the trade. YGOW is a an initiative spearheaded …
What a contrast to the Block F. This Clyde Park Single Block B2 Bannockburn Pinot Noir 2019 has more flesh, more oak, more everything. Different, nice, enjoyable. Made in a …
Ive really enjoyed working through these single block Clyde Park wines. They're all quite different, which is unsurprising given that there are a whole suite of different winemakers crafting the …
The kick off point for Clyde Park’s range of Pinot, and still dead serious. The Clyde Park Locale Pinot Noir 2018 trades in bony early picked fruit, the acidity fizzes …
January is a little slower for wine deliveries to the Australian Wine Review PO Box, as most local vignerons are either on holidays, preparing for vintage, or picking grapes. That means …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ok drinks. And some are just bad. Here then is a selection of wines that almost made it to a pass mark …
Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays. Joyous Festivus (take your pick of chosen intro). This has been a very weird Christmas for us. Here, situated in the only part of Australia in lockdown, Christmas …
Fun fact: Shiraz makes up over 25% of all winegrapes crushed in Australia, and South Australia has the largest vineyard area with 76,292ha (Wine Australia figures 19/20). But what I want …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ok drinks. And some are just bad. Here then is a selection of wines that almost made it over the past few …
