Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

Ivan Sutherland and James Healy were the driving force at Cloudy Bay, before they started Dog Point in 2004. They wanted to remain of a siz...

Marco Cirillo has been focussed on Grenache for many years, one of the few Australian winemakers. He has a vineyard of very old bush vin...

I have quite a number of readers from Europe, in particular France, but also Germany, UK, Spain and Portugal. Surprisingly, only occasional...

Alex Head is one of the new generation of winemakers in the Barossa who redefine the style of Barossa Shiraz. After the excesses of the dro...

Chiara Boschis, long term winemaker at E.Pira, and Fabio Fantino of Conterno Fantino just visited Sydney to show their new Barolos from the...

Significant vintage variation is alive and well in Bordeaux. After the outstanding 2009 and 2010 vintages, collectors had to wait until 201...

It was an unusual move, to say the least, to put the highly acclaimed single vineyard Steingarten Riesling under the Jacob's Creek bran...

Riesling producers are still trying to win over the larger wine drinking public. For a number of years we had the ‘Summer of Riesling’. Now...

The Fetherston label is a new label to me. This 2016 Fetherston Chardonnay displays quite a golden colour. However, on the palate, th...

I am not sure what I can add to the glowing reviews for this wine except that this review is now for the nine year old 2009 Clonakilla S...

The 2013 Best's Bin 0 Shiraz is a well made wine. It is very balanced, delivers a good mouthfeel, and is fresh on the palate. The...

The Coldstream Hills Deer Farm Pinot Noir extinguishes itself by the brightness of its fruit. And so it is with the 2015 Coldstream Hills D...