It's always instructive to look at a top gold and trophy winning wine and working out how it won the silverware. and this Serafino Reserve Grenache 2022 really won big, …
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 …
