Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

McLaren Vale and Barossa Valley are the prime regions for serious Grenache in Australia. But it is also interesting to compare two Grenaches...

After a number of mixed experiences lately, I wanted an exciting wine drinking experience. I went for the 2010 Kusuda Pinot Noir . This wine...

Ulithorne is a small McLaren Vale producer who impressed me a lot last year at a premium red wine tasting event. The wines are small product...

I thought it would be interesting to now taste a new world wine of similar positioning and age and compare. Therefore I opened a 2004 Two Ha...

The argument about the respective merits of the 'structured' old world Cabernets versus the new world fruit dominated Cabernets or S...

The Krondorf brand has been around for over 35 years. The 'Growers' wine acknowledges fruit from selected growers. The 2012 Krondorf...

I finalized all details for my biggest winery trip ever, taking in Champagne, Bordeaux, Burgundy and Rhone. The visits are set up for May, a...

The 2010 Wynns Messenger Cabernet Sauvignon is the first separate bottling from this vineyard since 1985. It achieved a lot of acclaim on r...

Some highly acclaimed wineries fall from grace. It is hard to understand exactly why and why it is not reversible. For example, in the 1980s...

If you are getting tired of drinking the same old Chardonnay, why not try a new one from Tasmania. New wineries are popping up there all the...

Yesterday, this blog went through 100,000 page views. Yeah! To celebrate, I have chosen this special review. The wines were tasted late last...

I am sorry this blog has been quiet for so long. First, I was in a non wine-drinking environment, then I got struck down by a viral infectio...