Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

 Yesterday I tasted six interesting Barolos from recent vintages. Elvio Cogno is perhaps the most important producer of the Novello subregi...

 I asked myself this question, as I was reading a James Halliday mail, where four wines were rated at 95 points plus, reviewed by different ...

 Penfolds Bin 60A is supposedly the greatest Australian wine ever made. I never had the opportunity to taste it. In 1990, a great vintage fo...

 The Standish wines of 2018 and 2019 were sensational on release. More intense than Rockford, less ripe than Torbreck, more polished or eleg...

 In a recent tasting of benchmark wines I came across two wines which I thought were exceptional. The first wine was a 2009 Lucien Le Moine ...

 It is this time of year again, when Penfolds releases its new set of wines. And I am very annoyed. The stable of Penfolds related wine crit...

 A few days ago, I went to a fine dining restaurant in Bangkok. I chose matching wines, because I was interested to see what this restaurant...

  The 2006 Penfolds RWT Shiraz has an intensity only Penfolds seems to be able to deliver. This is a classic wine with characteristic blackb...

 The production of Champagne is relatively complex, but I find its evaluation quite simple. The things that matter are 1) The grape composit...

 A leopard does not change his spots, nor does David Powell change his winemaking style. The 2019 Neldner Road Loechel Shiraz is from Eden ...

 The 2023 Savaterre Frère Cadet Chardonnay is the second label of Savaterre, but it is not an entry level wine like, for example, the Prelu...

 The 2021 Spinifex Moppa Shiraz drinks like the little brother of the La Maline Shiraz/Viognier, which I reviewed some time ago. La Maline ...