It's been quieter here at Australian Wine and Drinks Review over the past week, with a continued sprinkling of chaos introduced into the daytime projects to make my life fun/entertaining/shithouse. That …
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, …
Hello, and welcome back. It's been quiet here over the last fortnight, with holidays and birthdays taking over proceedings. Plenty of these (an excellent Range release. Probably my favourite Range Brewing beer …
The Other Wine Co. was first established as an arm of the Shaw & Smith empire that went beyond the S & S Adelaide Hills regulars, with an aim to …
This Chapel Hill The MV Shiraz 2021 is exactly what most McLaren Vale Shiraz drinkers want. A huge expanse of purple fruit, in a silken wave of chunky ripeness. Gleefully …
They're always such hearty wines from Chapel Hill. Sometimes too warm/firm/dense, but you'll never die wondering. This Chapel Hill The MV Mourvedre 2021 is more vibrant and less chewy than …
What a great word archetypal is. Although it's one of those words that annoying wine writers like me use, but most normal humans would never put in a sentence. 'Yeah, Matt …
Full, ripe and bold Grenache that still retains red fruit vibrancy. That's the gist of this Chapel Hill The MV Bush Vine Grenache 2021, which is in a pretty good …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here is a collectin of 15 wines that almost made it in October 2022. As ever, …
This is the third in a series of pieces that I'm republishing that were previously print-only. I loved putting together this feature for all the interesting and very human stories …
I love these tastings, The Young Guns of Wine (YGOW) is an annual awards program designed to celebrate new/young wine producers. But YGOW has now expanded beyond the awards to a …
Want to know what the best part about wine show judging is? The judge's dinner. That's because the judging is less glamorous than you'd think. Often, it's a mouth-destroying slog, with …
This is great. A great wine and a great drink - and all at 13.5% alcohol. So what's the secret of the Yangarra King’s Wood Shiraz 2020? It obviously starts in …
At 18, I started working in a small suburban bottleshop, largely to buy cheap beer. It was my first year of university, slogging through physics and chemistry, so a liquor shop seemed like fun. But then, I fell in love with wine and craft beer, and it took over my life.
Twenty three years later and I spend my days wearing many beverage hats and judge at wine shows around the world...Read more
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