Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

Come on guys, place your vote. How do you like your Shiraz?

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An evening of elegance. Also had some 2005 Clonakilla Hilltops Shiraz . This wine is not as elegant as the Bindi, but a well crafted wine, a...

Some time ago I praised the Pinot Noirs from the Mornington Peninsula. A comment came back; what about Macedon? Not sure about this as a top...

The only Australian wine in this year's top 10 of the Wine Spectator is the 2006 Carnival of Love. It is a high alcohol "Parker...

At our last stop, we tried quite a number of wines. The 2008 Howard Park Riesling is a pleasant surprise. It has quite strong citrus flavou...

The wine tasting in WA turned out to be much more substantial than I had anticipated, but this was the second last. The Tom Price SBS was no...

As we know, Leeuwin is a star producer of Chardonnay, but the rest are more miss than hit. Of the current releases, the 2006 Art Series Ries...

Apart from the Cabernet tasting, I went to the winery tasting room to look at the rest of Cape Mentelle's range. They currently have a s...

I was asked recently if there is anybody in New Zealand who reviews and scores wines similar to what James Halliday or Jeremy Oliver are doi...

One of my reasons to have been at Margaret River is to attend the International Cabernet tasting organised by Cape Mentelle. They have done ...

In one of my introductory posts, I said I would make less use of food categories to describe wine and that I liked the 'masculine' a...