Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

Kooyong is my number two winery from the Mornington Peninsula, with the highly respected Sandro Mosele at the helm. The 2010 Kooyong Estate ...

Magnum bottles are priced more than twice the price of regular bottles in Australia. Is this justified? In the old days, when wine was bot...

I am not the world's greatest expert on Spanish wines, but generally there are three things I don't like about them 1)  Lack of vit...

Massolino is a more than 100 year old winery in the subregion of Serralunga in Piedmont. It owns seven vineyards there with quite different...

Staying with the village theme. Marchand & Burch is a high quality brand, based on the partnership of successful wine producers, bringin...

When I did my review on four leading 2007 Margaret River Cabernets, one of my readers suggested I could have included the Blue Poles Alloura...

Buying Burgundy wine is the toughest assignment, no doubt. In contrast to Bordeaux, it is the vineyards who get the Grand Cru and Premier Cr...

I thought I compare the Clerc Milon mentioned in my last post with another wine from the Pauillac subregion, the 2002 Chateau Pontet-Canet ....

I reviewed the 2003 Chateau Clerc Milon a couple of years ago, and was not that impressed. Was I wrong or has this wine improved so much i...

The results of this poll were quite surprising to me. I thought Champagne would do better. But then, my readership is quite sophisticated, a...

Laherte Freres is a leading artisan Champagne producer. I chose this Champagne for New Year's eve, without really knowing anything abou...

2007 was hailed as an outstanding vintage in Margaret River. The vintage was hot, the fruit riped beautifully, and the harvest was early.As ...