Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

 Sorry, I have not posted for a while, as I have mainly been drinking wine I already reviewed, but I experienced a mini vertical of the Leeu...

 Vertical tastings, not easy to come by, are great opportunities to identify a producer's style, while also appreciating vintage variati...

 As I mentioned in previous posts, Tasmanian Pinot Noir is difficult to get a grip on. There are a number of sub-regions with quite differen...

 We all like to acquire an excellent wine at a low price. Is there a systematic way of doing this? One approach is to buy a second or third ...

 Domaine Epis is a bit of a legendary winery. It was one of the first in the Macedon Ranges, and it made Pinot Noir in a Burgundian style, m...

 This is the preamble: Many of my wine drinking friends pooh-pooh Grange: too ripe, too big, too brutal, not sophisticated. A tall poppy syn...

 Laurent Ponsot resigned from the family Domaine Ponsot at the end of 2017 and set up on his own with his son. Since then he has been on a s...

 Château de Vaudieu is not as well known as Vieux Télégraphe or Château de Beaucastel, but I think it should be. It is the largest continuou...

                                                    The Penfolds Collection now consists of 22 wines. It is difficult to taste them all. I h...

 The whites of the new releases are from 2023, the reds from the 2022 vintage. Both vintages were cool in Geelong, in particular 2023. I sta...

 In short, not yet. Burgundy wines have seen spectacular price rises in the last years. This was exacerbated in the years since the Covid pa...

 In contrast to the other sacred sites, the soil of the Johnno's vineyard is mainly sand. The 2017 Tyrrell's Johnno's Shiraz is...