Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

The Heathcote story is a complicated one. First, there was Jasper Hill with its very unique and successful wines. It put Heathcote on the ma...

Australian winemakers are complaining about the high growth of imports. Yet, the reality is they are not just a curiosity factor, but they h...

Tyson Stelzer has published a new classification of New Zealand Pinot Noir. This is useful, because so many new wineries have sprung up ther...

The 2008 Stella Bella Chardonnay displays the typical Margaret River fruit characteristics: peach and tropical fruit, e.g. papaya. The frui...

Roses, tar, strong tannins - Barolos are not everybody's cup of tea. But when they are good, they are sensational - very complex, elegan...

Unfortunately, this is going to be a brief post, as I did not take any notes during this fabulous Castagna dinner. The 2008 Castagnia 'L...

Not quite sure what to make of it. The participation is a bit disappointing, given I have many more readers - and you can influence what to ...

I also came across three comparable middle aged top level New Zealand Pinot Noirs in my cellar the other day and thought a comparison would ...

I went for a new strategy tasting the new Penfolds Bin releases this year. In the previous years, I found these hard to taste. They were rou...

One has to be quite selective at these big wine shows (maybe 60 wineries were present), so I decided on a bit of Chardonnay from Waiheke Isl...

I have been thinking what I should put up as my 500th post. It had to be special. It had to be Australian. I have done a number of reports o...

Along with the Villa Maria Pinot Noirs, we tasted a similar set from Mt. Difficulty. Mt. Difficulty made quite a splash when it came on the ...