Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

I am still digging deep into my cellar. Last night I found a 1990 Wynns Michael Hermitage . The previous wine in this series was from 1954. ...

This is one of the most unusual and definitely Australia's anti terroir wine. If you were asked in a multi choice question "does th...

A patriotic post should be allowed on Australia Day. You heard about the NZ wine tsunami, the unstoppable wave of their Sauvignon Blancs. Pl...

Laughing Jack is another of the up and comers. The vineyards are located in the Moppa region of the Barossa Valley. The 2008 Jack's Shi...

If you ask me to name five young wineries which will make their mark on Australian wine in the next five years, I would nominate Lethbridge ...

The 1998 Penfolds 707 Cabernet Sauvignon is without question a remarkable and outstanding wine. It is still drinking extremely young, in fa...

The 1998 Barossa Valley Estate E&E Shiraz is a full bodied Shiraz, ripe, but not overextracted. It tastes of blackberries, plum and mocc...

I knocked off my oldest bottle of Pinot Noir tonight, a 2000 Martinborough Vineyard Pinot Noir . This wine is brilliant. Similar to the Auro...

Savaterre is a quiet producer from Beechworth with high quality aspirations (and a very high lying vineyard). It wants to produce aging Char...

A good way of judging a new producer is to drink a wine which is at least seven years old. I managed to get a bottle of the 2002 Aurora Vine...

Over the last couple of days, I drank the 2004 Giaconda Chardonnay from a bottle under screw cap and a bottle under cork. They tasted exact...

The 2002 Penfolds Cellar Reserve Grenache is the only straight Grenache ever made by Penfolds, to my knowledge. This is not a typical Penfo...