Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

Emily Laughton has to be one of the nicest and most generous wine makers alive. I was scheduled for a tasting at Jasper Hill several years a...

I have been impressed with eight Rieslings from the 2012 vintage I recently tasted. There were quite significant differences between the win...

My recent experiences raise the question of the value of vintage ratings. My observations are that they are not very reliable, maybe even mi...

After having experienced the quite rapid ripening of the 2002 Mount Edelstone, I decided to open a 2001 Henschke Mount Edelstone , the oldes...

Continuing my 2001 theme, I opened a bottle of the Torbreck Les Amis Grenache. Maybe I should not have, as this was my last bottle from 200...

Following on from the unusual Mount Edelstone experience, I decided to open a stalwart of the Australian wine industry, a  mature Wynns Cabe...

In 2010, I posted a glowing review of the 2002 Henschke Mount Edelstone Shiraz . It had received very high scores on release by professional...

I usually review quite expensive wines, I must admit, but sometimes I come across a cheap wine which is quite reasonable in quality. The 201...

Kosta Browne appeared on the California Pinot Noir scene as the new star a few years ago. You have to be sceptical when a new winery without...

One of the natural food and wine matches for me are seared tuna and aged Semillon.  Bruce Tyrell said not long ago that he owned four of the...

I focussed on premium wines from Victoria. In no particular order: Farr Rising , 2011: A pretty wine from a challenging vintage. The wine ...

In my town, in Sydney, you could go to wine tastings three or four times a week However, you could count really good comparative tastings on...