When I first started in the wine industry, Angove was a cask brand with a clutch of good-value, but often pretty simple, wines. I can remember twenty years ago, my …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here are 24 wines that almost made the silver medal grade in June 2024. From …
Cape Barren has recently been folded into the CW Wines portfolio (which seems to be always growing). The old Cape Barren Blewitt Springs vineyard came with the sale (I think), …
Loud but proud Vale Shiraz. That's the jist with this deeply impressive single-block McLaren Vale Shiraz. from a patch of vines near the road (as you drive into Chapel Hill). …
It's Mencia rosé from McLaren Vale with a little Shiraz. Smartly packaged, smartly made. It sees some time in the barrel, adding a creamed watermelon layer. Savoury, nicely softened edges …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here are 13 wines that almost made the silver medal grade in April 2024. Some …
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 …
Tasting young Cabernet sometimes feels more like crystal-ball gazing than a trip to pleasure town. I know we don't end up emptying many young Cabernet wines over dinner, either. But …
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 …
Welcome to 2024. It's going to be great. Or, at least, let's aim to make it great by drinking a shedload of really delicious wines. So, what have you been drinking? Many …
