Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

Kumeu River is probably New Zealand's best known Chardonnay producer. I have not drunk their wines for a number of years, but the other ...

The second area I wanted to explore on my Victoria trip was the Macedon Ranges. Is this a potentially outstanding region or are there exce...

On the way back to Melbourne, it made sense to stop at Mount Langi Ghiran. I tasted their two best known red wines. The flagship 2010 Moun...

The second winery I visited on my trip to Great Western was of course the historic Seppelt. It certainly has had a checkered history, but no...

Only two Semillons make the Langton's clissification. Andrew Thomas belongs there, too, in my opinion. In the meantime, you can enjoy hi...

I took a trip to Great Western a few weeks ago and visited Best's (the website name is great, isn't it: www.bestswines.com). The w...

Most leading Pinot Noir producers show their new releases at this tasting, which happened a few weeks ago. I reported on this last year as w...

It is with great sadness to see that David Powell lost control of his Torbreck winery. David has always divided opinion, but there is no arg...

Langtons Classification is Australia's most authoritative categorization of its best wines. Langtons uses auction results to group the...

Sandro Mosele is a very meticulous winemaker. He has established a very logical three tiered system for his wines, with the Estate wine sitt...

After the disappointment with Pahlmeyer, I opened a bottle of the second wine I brought back from the Napa a few years ago, the legendary S....

When I reported on the Glaetzer-Dixon Shiraz winning last year's Jimmy Watson trophy and not being too enthusiastic about the wine, I dr...