Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

 I am drinking the 2016 Craggy Range Te Kahu Merlot blend. This wine hits me with its concentrated fruit. It is intense and powerful, but a...

 The Adelaide Hills has become the major playing field for Australian wine: Barossa vintners and others make cool climate Shiraz here. The P...

 Most of my readers have a deep interest in wine. Some of you may want to further your knowledge with some education. I was recently made aw...

 Massolino calls the subregion of Serralunga home. It is perhaps the most heralded area in the Barolo region. The wines here are darker in c...

 Wendouree has this special aura of mystery. It mainly relates to the Shiraz and various blends. However, there are other astonishing wines ...

 A few days ago, I was hosted at Magill Estate to a tasting of some special wines.  The whites were the 2021 Cellar Reserve Polish Hill Ries...

I must admit I have shied away from Soave wines. Most of it is industrially produced wine for the quaffer market. Fattori is said to be a se...

 Lake's Folly is an enigma. In a region specializing in Semillon and Shiraz, Max Lake planted Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon. And I d...

 Tertini is located in the Southern Highlands, NSW, and it deserves more recognition. I visited 18 months ago, and have now come back for a ...

 Today, I participated for the first time since the start of the pandemic in a larger public tasting. It felt good to be back. It was Tyson ...

 There was a concern that the warm 2003 vintage in Bordeaux would deliver overripe wines with limited ageing potential. A few posts ago I re...

 Upping the ante with a sub $15/bottle wine from the Yarra Valley. The Gradi wine is a special Rochford release for the joint venture restau...