Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

The next two polls are of varieties and styles which are almost uniquely Australian. However, they are not widely appreciated here either. T...

Hot on the heels of Leeuwin Estate came Howard Park with a dinner to showcase their new wines, including a first look at the 2007 Abercrombi...

The 2008 Tappanappa Chardonnay has quite intense stone fruit characteristics. It is very polished and pleasant on the palate. Good oak inte...

I discussed the white wines of this evening in my last post. Now on to the reds. The first red wine was the Art Series Shiraz . I have to ad...

A dinner with Leeuwin Art Series wines, in particular when there are more than ten, has a special feeling to it. Will any other wine reach t...

Not surprisingly, Leeuwin Estate took the Chardonnay crown. Highly regarded Chardonnays from Petaluma, Penfolds and Pierro did not get one v...

I am just finishing off the delightful 2002 Keith Tulloch Semillon . Tyrell claim to own four of the five best Semillon vineyards in the Hun...

I had two interesting bottles of Rose in front of me at lunch yesterday. One was a Spinifex, the other a Yelland & Papps. Both are from ...

I do not review wines from the Hunter Valley very often. Too many wineries have given in to a tourism focussed approach. However, there are ...

Roman Bratusiuk and his wines at Clarendon Hills are not often mentioned when it comes to leading Australian wines, yet few would argue that...

I had the opportunity to taste quite a lot of Leeuwin at a recent dinner sponsored by them. It included small verticals of their Chardonnay ...

Somebody pointed out to me, correctly, that I have used Bindi's Pinot names in the current Chardonnay poll. I sincerely apologize for th...