Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

My visit to the region was very exciting. The qualities of wines I tasted was very impressive, indeed. Unfortunately, I am not able to repo...

To get in the mood of Ribera del Duero, which I will be visiting for the next three days, I tasted the 2002 Pesquera Millenium Reserva , on...

Grenache is still fighting to be taken seriously. Does it need to be blended? Look at Garnacha from Priorat. Can it improve with age? Sure,...

The 2012 Farnese Edizione Cinque Autoctoni has been bestowed with  extraordinary acclaim: best Italian red wine 2015 and 99 points (and no...

Australian Semillon is typically associated with the Hunter Valley, where it is a signature grape. Not many know that the highest volume Se...

The 2008 William Downie Gippsland Pinot Noir was the first Gippsland release for William Downie. And what a release it was. Today, this wi...

William Downie is one of Australia's leading Pinot Noir winemakers. He trained under Phillip Jones of Bass Phillip for a while. Willi...

I thought a special wine was in order on election night in Australia. The Schubert Theorem states that every knot can be uniquely expressed...

A full house at this tasting As you can imagine, this was a pretty comprehensive tasting. Still, some significant producers were mis...

Torbreck was the first winery in the Barossa to emphasize the subregional differences in the flavour and structure of the grapes which are ...

A little while ago, I was offered the wine pictured above for an incredible price of significantly less than $20 per bottle. Damien Tscha...

The term Rhone Rangers was coined for Californian wine makers producing wines from Rhone varieties, in particular Shiraz and Grenache. It s...