Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

Lerida, one of the newer wineries in the Canberra district, has a successful Shiraz/Viognier, but it is with the burgundian varieties of Cha...

I finally managed to become a follower of a number of blogs which I have read with interest from time to time. They are mentioned on my fron...

Yesterday, I just grabbed a random bottle from the cellar. It happened to be a 2002 Henschke Mt. Edelstone. Given this wine has done so well...

Yes, you guessed it. Cabernet is next. Please vote as enthusiastically as you have done with Shiraz. This is easier, too. There are only thr...

The winner is very deserving, I think. For a while it looked like a draw with Penfolds St. Henri and I was contemplating how to decide. I c...

I was interested in these wines, as they have been written up so much since the 2008 Shiraz won the Jimmy Watson Trophy last year. The wines...

It is great to see good participation. It is not so hard, is it? A good spread of votes, too. But you need to break the tie. Not long to go!...

Rather than going to the rip off event which showcases NSW wines at Hyde Park today, where you pay $5 per tasting(!) glass for wines which ...

Peter Schell, the man who is Spinifex, is alleged to have said he would kill himself if he ever made a typical Barossa Shiraz. He likes to h...

For a special celebration, I have been drinking, from the golden early 90s of this wine, the 1993 Henschke Mt. Edelstone . This has to be o...

The Meshach is Grant Burge's flagship wine. I overlooked to include it in the current poll, but I doubt it would have been better than m...

It was interesting to compare another aged white wine with the Audrey Wilkinson I had the other day. Gunderloch is well known for its world ...