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 …
#ChardoMay is over. Bring out the red wine! Seriously though, It's been a pleasure to up my Australian Chardonnay levels this month, if just to remind how good we have it …
It's been quieter here at Australian Wine and Drinks Review over the past week, with a continued sprinkling of chaos introduced into the daytime projects to make my life fun/entertaining/shithouse. That …
Yesterday, I was scurrilously complaining about underripe and underwhelming Chardonnay. 24 hours later and Ngeringa delivers a soothing, wonderfully layered ChardoMay highlight. It’s easy to equate the romance of biodynamic viticulture …
We don't talk about Margaret River sub-regions all that much in Australian wine. That's perhaps because, outside of Wilyabrup, the different areas don't have dominant identities. Sure, it could just …
It's not been the triumphant 15th birthday week I had envisioned here at Casa Graham, with a few rough nights and a bit of chaos on a key 'daytime' project …
As I mentioned yesterday, the month of May on Australian Wine and Drinks Review will be focused on Chardonnay, with a large pile of wines on the bench ready to …
The number one role of wine is to be a delicious beverage. The end. Yet so often, fancy wine ends lost in itself, trying to be a serious intellectual pursuit when …
Right, let's get back into the sample pile, hey? I have so much respect for what the Pooley family have done with their eponymous brand, taking it from a hobby plot …
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 …
Tim Smith's wines are typically well-received at Graham HQ, with his generously textured reds a particular highlight. I'm here to report that his new Tim Smith Wines Mataro 2022 & Tim …
Maybe it was the idyllic, lily-topped pond glimmering to the left. Maybe it was the proudly untidy grass sprawling out underneath the grapevines. Or maybe it was just how green …
Close followers of this site will know how popular Riesling is on this site, even to the point where I've been accused of having a 'Riesling bias'. I'll wear that with …
What were you doing at 12 years old? Besides listening to lots of Pearl Jam and Nirvana and watching cricket, I probably wasn't achieving much. But Sebastian Atkins-Davis is already four …
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
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