Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

 The oddity of Sami-Odi (port shaped bottle, blend of vintages) is no longer new, so the obvious question is, how good is the wine? The ten ...

 Peter Sisseck, the very smart Dane, is the founder and owner of Pingus. He researched Ribera del Duero meticulously before he settled on tw...

 Up to about 30 years ago, Priorat was a run down region with a lot of poverty and no significant investment in vineyards or winemaking. The...

 He is not a doctor. The winemaker is Peter Dredge (get it?). He has worked at a number of prestigious wineries in the Adelaide Hills and Ta...

 After selling Petaluma in 2001, Brian Croser founded Tapanappa. His most famous wine is his Chardonnay from the Tiers vineyard in the Picca...

 Let me move to the value segment today. When you look to buy St. Hallett Shiraz, you know you are going to get good fruit. How is this play...

 Clos de Vougeot of 50ha is the largest single vineyard of premium red wine in the Côte de Nuits. At the same time, it is very divided and h...

 The blend of Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc is essentially only produced in Bordeaux and Margaret River. White Bordeaux has become quite unpo...

 Having had the pleasure of the mature Lynch-Bages, I wanted to explore how the 2009 vintage stacks up by tasting three wines from different...

This Is A Vertical, But The Years Are On The Back Verticals of more than 15 year old Bordeaux wines are not easy to come by. This was a spec...

 There is no doubt that Tasmania can deliver top shelf Chardonnay. Is the 2021 Frogmore Creek Chardonnay in the same league as Tolpuddle, P...

 It was not until after I bought a bottle of 2019 Achaval Ferrer Malbec that I started to think about it. You see, this business is owned b...