The tree is still up, but the Christmas plates are long gone. We're now in the first days of 2026, and as I take the recycling bin out, it's a …
As I mentioned last week, the theme for November is to open as many things as possible. And part of that journey involves a plethora of wines that are all …
I have too much wine. This sounds like the most first-world plea for help in history (please, someone crack out the micro violin), but at the moment I have too much …
It’s that time again. Time to inspire me to spend more money on drinks, even though the WineArk cabinet can’t be closed properly, and the Amex is maxed out. So, what …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here are 11 wines that almost made the silver medal, Australian Wine and Drinks Review …
Forget scores, my favourite way to classify a wine is how many glasses I could drink. Faulty junk? Tip it down the sink. An overly sweet, but fascinating, fortified? A …
There are few more satisfying things in a wine show than finding out the wine you judged blind and liked enough to give a trophy is a shit-hot wine. It's …
Australian Shiraz is a much more diverse world than it gets credit for. Globally, there is still this shortsighted assumption that Barossa Shiraz is what our entire continent makes, as if …
Matt Burton from Gundog Estate does love to tinker. Whether that's new wines, new takes on old wines, or the constantly evolving Indomitus lineup, there is always something new happening at …
I call this the anti-Almost Club. Monday's monthly dive into the 'Almost Club' wines can seem negative, so today it's about wines that actually did make it, with an emphasis on …
Let's call this the anti-Almost Club. Yesterday's dive into some of the wines that didn't quite make the silver medal pass mark is pretty negative, so today I want to roll …
Despite making 260 (mostly Hunter Valley) wines a year, a former dux of the Len Evans Tutorial, and only recently crowned as the 2025 Halliday Winemaker of the Year, Liz …
