Author Archives: The Wine Commander

Wine Spectator top 100 wines 2021

Posted on December 7, 2021 by The Wine Commander

  Each year since 1988, the influential and prestigious US Wine Spectator magazine has released its Top 100 list, where the editors select the most exciting wines from the more than 12,500 they reviewed during 2021. Pictured left is the number … Continue reading →

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Spotlight on non alcohol wines. Part 2 – Australia

Posted on August 12, 2021 by The Wine Commander

Australian Vintages McGuigan Zero range now makes up 10 per cent of sales of the entire McGuigan portfolio.  In part 1 of this topic we looked at no and non alcoholic wines progression in NZ. In this blog we examine theproduers … Continue reading →

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Spotlight on non alcoholic wines. Part 1 – NZ

Posted on August 11, 2021 by The Wine Commander

 Above: John Forest from Forest wines in Marlborough, NZ with The Doctors range of wines. You may not like to drink them but the fact is there is a growing demand for no and low alcohol wine around the world. … Continue reading →

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Grange tasting

Posted on July 1, 2021 by The Wine Commander

We were very privileged indeed to have Peter Gago, the Chief Winemaker at Penfold’s join seven of us for a unique tasting of Grange Hermitage at Melbourne’s Kelvin Club. The entry was that each attendee bring a bottle of Grange … Continue reading →

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Penfolds Masterclass – the real review

Posted on June 9, 2021 by The Wine Commander

You may recall I previously reviewed the recent releases of the Penfold’s collection in 2019 in this blog. The 2021, ‘101 Masterclass’ was a slick affair held in May. It was evident at the masterclass that the domestic marketing of … Continue reading →

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