Urgh, another grape day. I'll play, though, because today is International Grenache Day 2023, and who can ignore the charms of this noble grape? For this year's Grenache Day fix, we're diving …
It's time to celebrate some of the wines that did make it over the last two months. You can consider this the anti-collection of Tuesday's Almost Club. Given how hard I've …
Ovitelli can be the most interesting wine in the Yangarra range, if purely because of the palate profile - the 133 days it spends on skins in concrete eggs gives …
As I first mentioned on Monday, Matt East dropped by the compound recently to show his latest Rouleur releases. And you know what? They looked bloody good, yet again. In …
Tried one of the Worlds Apart wines yet? Well worth your time. They don't always work, but such thought, playfulness and interest here. Even the names are fun. This Worlds …
How strange that this Hewitson Ungrafted Grenache 2022 is such a different beast to the Monopole from last week. Here, we have the lucid beauty of old vine Grenache in …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here is a collection of 27 wines that almost made it in May and June …
You know what irks me about the modern rosé boom? How many of the wines end up with frustratingly harsh acidity. Sure, such is life when you're early picking red wine …
On Monday, it was a flood of reviews on wines that didn't make the Australian Wine Review grade (which is a silver medal equivalent). But today, we have less snark, …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here is a collection of 15 wines that almost made it in March and April …
Tim Smith's wines are typically well-received at Graham HQ, with his generously textured reds a particular highlight. I'm here to report that his new Tim Smith Wines Mataro 2022 & Tim …
Maybe it was the idyllic, lily-topped pond glimmering to the left. Maybe it was the proudly untidy grass sprawling out underneath the grapevines. Or maybe it was just how green …
