Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

Some have said the Romas Vineyard in Blewitt Springs, North-East McLaren Vale, is Australia's greatest Grenache vineyard. The bush vine...

I had an opportunity to taste the highly anticipated 2017 releases from Bass Phillip yesterday, in their first showing. The line-up did not...

When the 2013 Mount Mary Pinot Noir came on the market, it was hyped a lot, and there was some scramble to get any bottles. I was ple...

Wine Masters is a very high quality series of films on leading wine families in the best known wine regions of the world. Series 2 portrays...

Some time ago I was quite impressed when I drank Pinot Noir from De Salis, an Orange based winery. Today I am reviewing the strangely named...

Adrian Rodda is not quite the household name, he perhaps deserves to be. His label is a bit downbeat, reflecting the hard vineyard work, bu...

An in-going strategy makes sense to get the most out of a large scale tasting event. So for this Barossa tasting I decided to focus on...

The typical Barolo descriptors of tar and roses, and firm dry tannins do not apply in the first instance to the 2010 Elio Grasso Gines...

In a bad vintage year, many wineries declassify their best fruit and add it to their more basic wines. Their base wines are than marketed a...

There was an enormous number of wines on tasting at this very large event. I have a principle to report on good and poor   wines when I att...

Woodlands is a good producer, and its vineyards sit on prime terroir in Margaret River. I have previously pronounced it as the worst develo...

The third wine in this series of full-bodied reds is the 2008 E. Pira Chiara Boschis Barolo Cannubi from arguably Piedmont's most famo...