Category: Australia
Australia
Mac Forbes is without a doubt my new favourite producer from Australia. His wines are sculpted entities of well-defined personality, quite different to the general style of piss boring …
Australia
This is a properly balanced Shiraz which does not taste very much like other Australian Shiraz wines (see the for more on this idea). For sure it is quite …
Australia
We were supposed to be having a little vertical of Annie’s Lane Clare Valley Shiraz at Hawksmoor tonight. Somehow, our hosts managed to forget them when heading from horrible, …
Australia
The Elitist Review editorial team dropped by this annual trade tasting organised by Wine Australia, the venue being the rather swish Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea. We didn’t taste so …
Australia
Difficult as it might be to believe this, we don’t always drink flash Burgundy at casa Strange. The partner has just received a case of affordable wines for general …
Alsace
I’ve occasionally been asked how I got into wine. This is a bit of a difficult question to answer as I started so young I am not really sure …
Australia
Rather than making a thick, sweet liqueur Muscat with this Barossa fruit, Two Hands have made a light, sweet, fizzy wine. Given the miniscule amounts of pleasure I have …
Australia
Hawksmoor’s wonderful red meat provided an excellent foil for solid Syrah and Grenache last night as we dined to celebrate the birthday of our chum James and also my …
Australia
We had pot roast lamb with Dan and ‘Non Stinky’ Jeff last night, they brought this around to drink after dinner. Shame we didn’t have any cheese to go …
Australia
I really like Moss Wood wines when they are young. Last summer I had a 1999 Cabernet and ageing hadn’t done much for it, so I wasn’t expecting to …
