Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

Posting has been a bit quiet lately, as I am travelling in Africa. A couple of days ago I visited one of three wineries in Namibia. It is in...

The 2001 Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon is widely regarded as the best for the last ten years (what is it with the 1s? The 91 is brilliant). ...

During the last week, I came across a couple of interesting articles about ways in which to describe wine. Tim White, the wine writer for th...

The most reputable wines are generally not entered into wine shows. It is therefore not often that one finds an opportunity to compare the b...

Onto another wine from 2002. This time it is the 2002 Jasper Hill Georgia's Paddock . This wine is from a mature, organically grown and ...

The Ares is the 'best of best grapes' Shiraz of this Shiraz specialist. The 2002 Two Hands Ares Shiraz demonstrates why this is a p...

Gruener Veltiner is becoming a much sought after variety. To date, very little is grown in Australia. The variety is native to Austria, wher...

The first wine was the 2010 Craggy Range Gimblett Gravels Chardonnay . Now this is strange, as this soil is really well suited for red wines...

I drank the 2004 Bindi Block 5 Pinot Noir the other night. Was I at peace with myself? I probably was, but so was this Bindi flagship wine....

By chance, I had an opportunity to taste recent releases by Cullen and Moss Wood within three days. As it happened, these wines were a very ...

Barossa Valley Estate, the large co-operative in the Barossa, has gone through ownership changes in the last 10 years, and a number of winem...

I had great hopes for this 2004 Bowen Cabernet Sauvignon . I drank this wine shortly after it was released, and it showed terrific, terra ro...