Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

You may be a little tired of reading all these key moments, best of... etc. of the last decade. However, it is truly remarkable how the win...

Our Christmas was a relatively quiet affair. Food was focused on seafood, with a filet steak on the evening of Boxing Day. The wine selecti...

The home of the Assyrtiko grape is the Greek island of Santorini. Santorini is basically a large caldera formed from a relatively recent v...

I wish my readers an excellent Christmas experience and some very good drinking next year!

Giant Steps recently changed from its old label in a similar way to what Bindi did prior. These are leading producers who focus on the char...

When I visited Salta in Northern Argentina earlier this year, I was keen to go to the Colomé winery, which, among others, boasts a vineyar...

The 2016 Tolpuddle Chardonnay has come together really well now. It has three distinctive flavours: white peach, grapefruit and almond. Th...

The 2016 Dominio de la Abadia is the cheapest wine I have ever reviewed; $9.99 at Aldi. This medium-bodied Tempranillo is much bett...

Bordeaux is one of the most conservative and regulated wine regions in the world. Appellation authorities decide which grapes can be used, ...

The Aylward Pinot Noir from the Mornington Peninsula impressed me when it first came onto the market. However, I somehow lost sight of this...

The 2012 By Farr Farrside Pinot Noir at first blush has everything an excellent Pinot Noir should have; black cherry fruit, quite intense;...

Three very good Cabernets from Australia, France and the US were tasted blind, in this order, as it turned out. The 2012 Moss Wood Ca...