These are the notes from an amazing recent tasting organised in London by MARC Fine Wines of a range of 22 top vintages of Penfolds Grange back to the legendary 1955. See Putting Grange back on...

See New York Times obituary See San Francisco Chronicle obituary See Linda Murphy's obituary on decanter.com I know people are meant to keep obituaries on file but I can't...

Australian wine imports As I reported in Australia changes focus , Australia’s shortage of cheap wine and resultant repositioning has resulted in plenty of talk about imports...

Ooo, many a man- and woman-hour has clearly gone into cleaning up the mess after the reported slanging match resulting from Dan Jago’s presentation at the recent Australian Wine Industry...

One of the many legacies of Australia’s Mr Wine Len Evans (see articles below) is the annual Len Evans Tutorial Scholarship, a wine tasting workshop for some of Australia’s...

In some ways it’s good that we wine tasters adapt to local conditions. When tasting in Burgundy we need to get used to the gloom of a typical Côte d’Or cellar. In Bordeaux...

Last Thursday night the first ever Len Evans Award for leadership in the Australian wine industry was given to David Hohnen, a man who is as quiet as the late Len Evans was noisy. Hohnen only...

A little gem of a book, Len Evans – How to taste wine , has just been published in Australia and can be ordered from anywhere in the world.   Evans had just finished work on...

Had a most frustrating look at some Very Important 2001s the other night: Penfolds Grange, Hermitage la Chapelle, Chapoutier Le Pavillon Ermitage, Delas’s Marquise de Tourette and their...

I learnt that they started picking in the Hunter Valley a week last Monday, Jan 15  here . That is quite exceptionally early. If global warming continues, each year's vintage is going to...

Allow me to present a selection of South Australian reds (and one rosé) – mainly from Mitolo.  I’m publishing these tasting notes inspired by Roger Jones’s paean...

Here are the notes I made at the London tasting of 2004s in bottle organized by the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux (so no first growths and few super seconds) held late last month. See also...

  Last Sunday night a group of Len Evans’ good friends gathered chez nous to toast memories of him via a series of top quality bottles donated by us all.   We...

  The morning after a Single Bottle Club dinner enjoyed last night with a few close friends of the late Len Evans (what? - you didn’t think he was going to go quietly, did you?)...

19 sep: Apparently there were a good thousand people at a raucous send-off for Len. Speeches were given by his widow Trish, Brian Croser, James Halliday,  Senator Michael Baume, Michael...