The Almost Club July 2025 edition: 20 wines that almost made it this month
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here are 11 wines that almost made the silver medal, Australian Wine and Drinks Review …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here are 11 wines that almost made the silver medal, Australian Wine and Drinks Review …
Are we at peak Pinot? Anecdotally, Pinot Noir is flying, with reports from producers (especially Victorians) that they can't make enough Pinot Noir (but Shiraz has slumped), a situation that has …
Craiglee has one of the grand old sites for Australian wine, and the Carmody's are great people. The Shiraz from here, in particular, is always effortless, always endearing. Indeed the …
Here's a selection of wines that were almost great. Some are just good, solid wines that are occasionally unready, through to slightly underwhelming/unexciting, and rounded out with a few wines that …
Witchmount Sunbury Cabernet Franc 2016 Now, for something completely different. A handpicked, wild fermented, carbonic macerated, unfined and unfiltered Cabernet Franc from a region that lies in the shadow (and underneath the …
10 x 20 years tasting - a plethora of Victorian goodies 'Ten Victorian vineyards - established, owned and run by ten passionate families. Ten families that have invested in an individual site …
Craiglee Chardonnay 2006 (Sunbury, Vic)$28, Diam (and a challenge to get out too), 14.5%Winery WebsiteAustralia needs more wineries like Craiglee. Hands on in every sense of the world, the gravity …
Sourced from gnarly old vines at the glorious piece of wine history that is Sunbury's Craiglee - Still gravity fed & using the winery structure that dates back to the …
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