Thomas Girgensohn's Australian Wine Reviews - and Beyond

 Today started with a tasting of a few selected German Rieslings, followed by Piedmont reds. The first stop was at Schloß Johannisberg, perh...

 The afternoon involved tastings of Portuguese and US wines.  I started with my favourite Portuguese winery, Quinta do Crasto from the Dour...

 I am sorry about the delay in posting. There was a period when I did not taste any interesting wines, and then I tasted at ProWein, the lar...

 Gamay used to be the most planted red variety in Burgundy. Now it is Pinot Noir, of course. And the success of Beaujolais Nouveau made Beau...

                                                                      The slightly modernized label 2018 was a relatively mild vintage in Ma...

 Xinomavro is an interesting variety, sitting right in trend. It is indigenous to Greece, and expresses itself particularly well in the hill...

 In a recent tasting of high quality French and Australian wines from 2010, one wine shone above the rest; the 2010 Château Margaux. The win...

 I enjoyed the 2015 Sordo (reviewed below) quite a lot. I thought let's see how this compares with the 2015 Elio Grasso Casa Maté. Wow! ...

 The 2021 Barolos are coming onto the market. While in some countries the latest vintage is always proclaimed the best, the Piedmontese  hav...

 Normally, I do not like new wines coming onto the market as the next big thing, with a big price tag. However, Swinney has been around for ...

 I quite enjoy US Pinot Noir from time to time. It needs to come from one of the better producers in Sonoma or Willamette Valley. Given the ...

 I have never done this before, that is to start with a description from the winery website, but it works in this case. The wine is new and ...