Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

So I open a bottle of the 2011 Leeuwin Estate Chardonnay . This brand is the most consistent high quality Chardonnay in Australia. But, you...

My award winning book about Barossa Shiraz is now available in Mandarin. To my Hong Kong and Chinese readers: go and get it, if you want to...

Benjamin Leroux, the Wunderkind Burgundian winemaker, who started to get interested in winemaking at age 12 and was appointed as chief wine...

Continuing on with Shiraz reviews. The Struie is usually a blend of Barossa and Eden Valley grapes, with the Barossa grapes providing the r...

Drinking Chardonnay at three years of age is perhaps not a good idea. You miss the early freshness, and the mature structure has not yet de...

It is a cold winter in Sydney this year. This means it is Shiraz time. Today's review is of a mature 2002 Fox Creek Reserve Shiraz fro...

If wines were athletes, the previously reviewed Kalleske Eduard would be a shot putter or hammer thrower. This 2010 Spinifex Bête Noir wou...

From a very old organic vineyard comes the 2008 Kalleske 'Eduard' Shiraz . This wine is a great example of the 'big Barossa...

There are some people or businesses in life that by strategy or luck seem to be beyond criticism. In music, Radiohead comes to mind, as the...

You probably have not heard of this Margaret River winery. However, Jo Perry won the prestigious 'Young Gun Of Wine' in 2016. She s...

Global warming is threatening traditional wine growing practices, but it is opening up new opportunities as well. One of these is the growi...

Some facts are hard to comprehend. The Symington family owns 27 wineries in the Douro Valley. The focus is Port, of course, with its famous...