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 …
Curiously enough, as a wine reviewer, you don't really get to regularly taste many 'value' wines. Yes, some producers send the whole range in for review, but on the whole, …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here are 30 wines that almost made the silver medal grade in March 2025. From …
After Friday's post about $100+ Champagne, today I want to highlight how much wine you can get for $35 or more. This collection has a simple motive - purely flavoursome …
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 …
Mr Anderson... Mr Grant is a McLaren Vale Malbec, which isn't a thing you see much of. Indeed this is the first release of a varietal Hickinbotham Malbec. A debut! …
There's a bit of variability in the Clandestine Vineyards range, which you'd expect given that there is a range of winemakers and growers all involved in the wines. But the …
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 selection of 48 wines that almost made it in August 2022. With this …
I haven't been tasting as much this week after Miss 2 brought home a virus from daycare and took out the whole house like a rogue wave at a Nippers …
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 …
Perhaps the least natural winner of the Thorn-Clarke Single Vineyard Selection range (behind wines like the Shiraz), but what do you expect for a Barossan Malbec? Actually, this Thorn-Clarke Single …
