Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

Last Thursday involved a major lunch and a tasting of a couple of aged Coonawarra reds. Over Christmas I drank quite a number of 10 year old...

The 4th of June marks the release of the new Wynns wines. I managed to taste today the cheaper set of the series, the Chardonnay, the 2006 ...

It is another spicy food night, this time Indian curry. I am drinking a 2002 Magpie Estate Gomersal Grenache with it. Grenache is the best ...

Paringa Estate is a highly acclaimed winery from the Mornington Peninsula. I am drinking the 2004 Estate Shiraz. I normally like to drink Au...

It was a pasta night, an Italian wine had to come out. I am quite fond of Barolos. These are wines based on the Nebbiolo grape, grown in Pie...

It is being said elsewhere, but that does not make it less true. We are seeing a revolution in Chardonnay style. In the last couple of days,...

It is not easy to match spicy Asian food with red wine. Shiraz and Cabernet have too much tannin which fight with the food. Normally I would...

It is probably appropriate to begin this blog with a bottle of Grange, in this case the 1998 , which I had yesterday evening. What makes Gra...

I will review wines in this blog which I drink. Most will come from my cellar and therefore have some maturity, some will be new, some from ...