On Monday, it was a flood of reviews on wines that didn't make the Australian Wine Review grade (which is a silver medal equivalent). But today, we have less snark, …
Within the first eight minutes out on the streets of Canberra, I saw a dude on an e-scooter almost cleanup a pedestrian on the footpath. Welcome back to Australia's capital city! These …
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, …
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 …
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 …
I love these tastings, The Young Guns of Wine (YGOW) is an annual awards program designed to celebrate new/young wine producers. But YGOW has now expanded beyond the awards to a …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here is a selection of 22 wines that almost made it in September 2022. As ever, …
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 …
As I was tasting this Torzi Matthews Syrah, I kept thinking about the Souhaut I had on holidays back in May. That Saint Joseph had the same peppered red fruit …
Today was the tasting of the Young Gun of Wine Awards (YGOW) finalists for 2022, with 31 'young' producers opening their wares for the trade. YGOW is a an initiative spearheaded …
Breathe out, it's holiday time. I'm in Noosa this week, for a family holiday that has been postponed twice in the last 18 months (thanks to COVID). It's easy to love this …
While it has been too moist and humid to feel 'hot' here in Sydney town in recent weeks, that doesn't mean we need an excuse to drink refreshing beverages. For …
From the almosts to the always. These are twenty of the most impressive Shiraz and Syrah to pass the desk during November 2021. What I like most when I scan down this …
We don't get out much anymore. Between looking after a small child, long days and lockdowns, restaurant meals have been few and far between for the Grahams in 2021. So what a …
At 18, I started working in a small suburban bottleshop, largely to buy cheap beer. It was my first year of university, slogging through physics and chemistry, so a liquor shop seemed like fun. But then, I fell in love with wine and craft beer, and it took over my life.
Twenty three years later and I spend my days wearing many beverage hats and judge at wine shows around the world...Read more
