In 1999, Andrew 'Thommo' Thomas left his longtime job at Tyrrell's to make a name for himself. After 13 years at what McLaren Vale-raised Thomas fondly calls a Hunter Valley 'finishing …
While my Balinese family holiday drinking was largely about pina coladas by the pool, two bottles of wine did come along from home (only two given that its a strict …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here is a collection of 27 wines that almost made it in May and June …
Mrs Ozwinereview and I don't get many chances for sans-child dining anymore, so on those very rare occasions when the small child goes away, we tend to eat/drink all of …
May/June is one of the peak periods for samples arriving at Casa Graham, with new-release reds and barrel-aged whites from the previous harvest (ie 2022) all landing on the doorstep. …
Before we get into the next instalment of 'What Chardonnay is Andrew opening for #ChardoMay today', a question - why isn't Hunter Valley Semillon more popular? In a country where dropping …
It’s that time again. Time to fill me in on what you’re currently drinking, what you want to drink, or what you have drunk in the last four weeks. And …
December through to February are the big drinking months here at Australian Wine Review HQ. Peak drinking season. Sure, there is something open every day on the tasting bench, but …
Happy New Year! Now that the weather here in Sydney has gone from 'glorious' to 'typically wet January shit', it's time for the first look at the laptop in 2023. Yeah, …
Young Semillon doesn't have to be hard going. This Hungerford Hill Classic Semillon 2022 delivers much of the freshness and crunch without being fiercely acidic. It's not wildly intense, but …
Hot on the heels of this month's Almost Club (highlighting wines that didn't make the silver medal standard), here is a selection of ten wines that DID make it (if …
I struggled with the locked-up tight Hunter's Semillon from Gundog this year, but Gundog Estate's The Chase Semillon 2022 is much more balanced. It's still one firm, lean, backward-looking Hunter …
