Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

The week of indulgence continued with a comparative tasting of some Grange vintages. Now, Grange is the opposite of what you would do if yo...

A week of indulgence kicked off with the 2010 The Standish Wine Company The Schubert Theorem . This wine takes branding to another level. F...

I do not drink much French Chardonnay, and if I do, I try to find good value matched by quality - not easy. This medium weight wine a...

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...