Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

Dalwhinnie Shiraz is one of the few wines I buy every vintage of. I drink them at about eight years of age, when primary and secondary chara...

Cabernet/Shiraz is Australia's signature blend. It works well. The structure of Cabernet is filled out by fleshy Shiraz. I think this wo...

The 2010s from St. Emilion are not easy to taste right now. These Merlot/Cabernet Franc wines are very tannic, with high acidity. The fruit ...

The recent tasting of the Andrew Thomas wines yielded some unexpected results. The Semillons are from 2014. Overall, they are more open an...

William Downie is among the most talented and exciting winemakers in Australia. He releases three Pinot Noirs from vineyards on the Morni...

We all love the fact that wine under screw cap cannot be corked (unless there was a problem in the winery). However, I have encountered thre...

I attended tastings of two interesting Mornington Peninsula producers. Moorooduc Estate is one of the earliest wineries on the Peninsula,...

At first, I need to come back to the 2000 Altare Barolo Brunate. It did not show well, but I have previously had an excellent experience wit...

Let us continue the examination of 2000 Barolos with the 2000 Gaja Barolo Conteisa . Gaja was the other major revolutionary. He introduced...

"We have won", Elio Altare exclaims. He was one of the first, with Angelo Gaja, to change the nature of making Barolo in the 1980s...

Over the next few days, I will taste and write up some of the great Barolos from the 2000 vintage. I have been a great fan of Piedmont's...

There is this concern with full-bodied Barossa Shiraz that it does not age well. 'The fruit is very ripe and will simply die over time....