Almost Club December / January 2023 Edition: 23 wines that almost made it this month
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 …
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 …
Geelong makes better Pinot Noir than Shiraz for mine, though it's a case by case basis. For Austin's it's Pinot all the way. Fun fact - This Austin’s Pinot Noir 2018 …
Chardonnay, like it or not, is still the most important white grape in the country, making up over 45% of all white grapes crushed, and 20% of total grapes crushed, …
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