After sixteen years of publishing this website, you'd think I'd know how to write a birthday card, right? Happy 16th birthday Australian Wine and Drinks Review.Lots of love,Andrew. Job done! I was reminiscing …
After sixteen years of publishing this website, you'd think I'd know how to write a birthday card, right? Happy 16th birthday Australian Wine and Drinks Review.Lots of love,Andrew. Job done! I was reminiscing …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here are 13 wines that almost made the silver medal grade in April 2024. Some …
After three days of wine show judging (and three days of wine dinners) in Canberra for the 2024 Winewise Championships, my tongue is black, my teeth are sore, and my …
Would you look at that sunshine? Day 2 of judging at the 2024 Winewise Championships dawned with a crisp Canberran day, which proved ideal for me to run up Mt Ainslie, …
It's a beautiful time of year, visually, to be in Australia's capital city, with yellows and reds colouring the usual brown/green Canberra landscape. Late April is pretty, if also unpleasantly …
It’s that time again. Time to inspire me to spend more money on drinks, even though the WineArk cabinet can’t be closed properly and the Amex is maxed out. So, what …
While I have exactly zero time for grape days, today I present the grandest way to celebrate International Viognier Day with the seriously world-class Yalumba The Virgilius Viognier 2022. As I …
Will the wines of Juniper change now that Mark Messenger has left (after twenty-five years)? It's too early to tell, really, but it is interesting to see how Andrew Bretherton …
I'm working through some Aldi-exclusive wines this month, with plenty of value highlights in the collection. This is a thickset Margaret River Cabernet from the Aldi lineup that feels plush …
A Mesh Riesling that fulfils the label potential (side convo - why are the wines up and down? Is it because this super Riesling, made by the legendary Jeffrey Grosset …
I was banging on just the other week about West Australian Pinot Noir struggles, and here's a pleasurable Pinot to mess with my theories. From Denmark in WA, this Apricus …
The Family Selection range is the fancy end of the Zema Estate range, although, at just $50, it's not a fancy price. Indeed, it's mad that a current release, six-year-old …
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