Highlights from 36 hours in the Hunter Valley: the good, bad and #Semsational
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 …
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 …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here is a collection of 15 wines that almost made it in March and April …
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, …
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 November 2022. Notably, many …
Let's get back into the sample pile, hey? I always feel like Harewood has a split personality - delicate, terroir-focused Riesling on the one hand, ripe, 'are you sure these are …
Yalumba are the kings of Shiraz Cabernet, so little wonder that this Yalumba Shiraz Cabernet 2019 is a substantial wine. The sort of chewy, real red that makes a bunch …
I don't know how much this new Paisley Maeve Shiraz Cabernet 2019 (there is no sticker on the bottle and I can't find the piece of paper with it), but …
Jacobs Creek sure know their audience. As one of the few wineries in the country with a dedicated sensorial lab to help refine wine styles. Couple that with comprehensive market …
A fascinating wine to taste in context of the other Taltarni reds. This Taltarni Reserve Shiraz Cabernet 2019 is so achingly backward, so future-focussed that it's a hard wine to …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ok drinks. And some are just bad. Here is a selection of wines that almost made it in May and June 2021. We're …
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 …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ok drinks. And some are just bad. Here is a selection of wines that almost made it in March 2021. You can …
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