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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Puglian Primitivo can be delicious. But mostly it's either a bit too ripe and Zin-light (which is a serious trend), or it's a lean, and lightly herbal dry red. Sometimes …
It always surprises me how much interesting Italian wine come to Australia. Loads of it. The only problem is that much of the best doesn't leave the 'on-premise' (restaurants and bars) …
For this week's sample pile raid I've focused on premium red wines from McLaren Vale, including a whole swathe of new '13 reds. Always interesting to look at a horizontal like …
Inkwell Wines Infidels Primitivo 2013 Dudley from Inkwell calls Primitivo his 'little obsession', praising this as a more structured iteration compared to previous years. Wild fermented, this spent 19 months in 28% …
2013 Inkwell releases I'm glad I tried these wines before I met their maker, Dudley Brown. I say that purely because it's harder to be completely objective once you meet a winemaker, …
