Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

Sorry for being absent for a while. Opportunities for reviewing wine while trekking in Nepal do not really arise. I am now back, and I thoug...

Many companies try to sway people with their labels or bottle designs. Only a few succeed. But look at this bottle! Eye-catching, but stil...

 Tahbilk has bottled Marsanne long before it became more fashionable to drink white Rhone varieties. There are three such wines in the curre...

I still remember when I first met Wayne Dutschke. We had to go to a restaurant to taste his wines, as he had no facility to do so. Dutschke ...

This blog does not engage in promotion nor advertising, but I must make an exception, given I just published a wine book. Barossa Shiraz...

I have spent the last 10 days in Japan and tried to come to terms with sake (not the major objective of this trip). I thought I might share ...

At a recent larger gathering of people tasting the 2013 Rieslings of Jeffrey Grosset, I was astounded to find that half the group favoured t...

As it happened, I drank four highly regarded wines over the last few days (a little while ago): -2002 Grosset Polish Hill Riesling -2001 ...

The 2012 Clonakilla Shiraz/Viognier is quite a special wine, like many before. The vineyard is at high altitude and the grapes grow on deep ...

As I mentioned before, I wanted to find out if Macedon can be a region producing exceptional wines, or if Bindi and Curly Flat are outliers ...

The hallmark of Penfolds is the longevity of its wines. I was therefore looking forward to open a bottle of the 1998 Penfolds RWT Shiraz . T...

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 ...