Author Archives: The Wine Commander

The  Wine Table, founded in 1927, meets every Wednesday in the upstairs Mural Room  at Melbourne restaurant institution Grossi Florentino. On 5 December it celebrated it’s 4000th lunch. Putting it into prospective members have consumed more than 37,000 bottles of red wine … Continue reading →

I am most grateful to Wine Spectator magazine for allowing me to publish their top 100 wines for 2018. Each year, Wine Spectator editors survey the wines reviewed over the previous 12 months and select their Top 100, based on … Continue reading →

Hi Blog subscribers Thank you for the many esquires as to when you will receive more news, tasting notes and features on what is happening in the world of wine. My apologies for not keeping in touch but I have … Continue reading →

In part 5 of this series, the tasting notes of vintages between 1976 – 1996 were posted. In this final segment I hope you have a vintage between 1998 – 2015. If so, this and previous  tasting notes in part’ … Continue reading →

In Part 4 of this series on Wynns Coonawarra Black Label Cabernet we reviewed the tasting notes of vintages between 1954 – 1975. Look for years you have in your cellar. Now how did the vintages 1976 -1996 stack up? … Continue reading →