Now that we've got yesterday's dive into a few wines that didn't float my boat this February, let's look at some good drinks. The pleasure zone. In particular, for this …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just 'ok drinks', and some are just bad… Here is a collection of 11 wines that almost made it in February 2024. Colmar Estate …
It's cliched, but when I cracked this The Other Wine Co. Grenache 2022, I checked the sticker on the label with the RRP twice. Confirmed. Double confirmed. Not a reserve …
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 …
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 …
Like Oakridge, being taken over by the listed ex-Woolworths liquor arm Endeavour Drinks hasn't hurt Chapel Hill's wine quality. Rock solid McLaren Vale wines, and with little shift in the …
There are now 85 different wines in the d'Arenberg range. Compared to Treasury, Accolade et al. or even Penfolds, that's small biccies. But for a still-family-owned McLaren Vale operation like d'Arenberg, …
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 …
Wes Pearson's McLaren Vale Grenache single vineyard tour continues here, with a wine sourced from the Wait Vineyard at Blewitt Springs, with similar handling to the Smart Vineyard wine - …
The Smart Vineyard in Clarendon is one of THE Grenache blocks in McLaren Vale. You only have to see the proliferation of single vineyard releases from the likes of Thistledown, …
A blend of old vine Grenache from the Smart & Wait Vineyards. While the more expensive single vineyard wines in the range (which will also be reviewed today) are a …
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 …
