Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

William Downie creates Pinot Noir from three different regions in Victoria: the Mornington Peninsula, Yarra Valley, and Gippsland. The Gipp...

It makes a statement, if somebody uses cork as closure on a bottle of Rosé, even more so if it is an Australian wine. This is meant to be s...

When Alex Head started his operations in the Barossa Valley about 15 years ago, he brought some fresh ideas to the valley. Picking grapes e...

I have taken advantage of the cooler conditions and opened a bottle of Shiraz which was hiding in my cellar. This was a magnum of 2004 Duts...

The Hunter Valley is regarded as the cradle of Semillon, but occasionally great Semillon is made in the Barossa. Peter Lehmann's Semill...

The ratings scales wine reviewers use reflect their view on absolute quality. It is subjective, of course, but it is meant to give an absol...

The top Cabernets from Margaret River are no doubt Cullen's Diana Madeline and the Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon. A number of winer...

The Lovedale vineyard is one of the top five Semillon vineyards in the Hunter Valley, with its vines now 70 years old; this 2007 Mount...

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!