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Tom Kline

Tom Kline is a wine writer, reviewer, presenter, and educator based in Victoria, Australia. He is the Australian correspondent for the internationally respected publications Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy and Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux, where he highlights the top tier of Australian wine for a global audience. Tom also writes for leading outlets including Decanter (UK), Wine Spectator (US), and Halliday Magazine, among others. An experienced wine show judge and WSET educator, he has authored several consumer-focused wine courses aimed at making wine more accessible and engaging. In 2023, Tom was awarded Best Published Feature Article or Wine Column at the prestigious Wine Communicator Awards, presented by Wine Communicators of Australia.
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Pizzini Pavona Pinot Grigio 2025

A higher-end Pinot Grigio offering from a single-vineyard site. ‘Pavona’ is Italian for ‘peacock,’ and the site is named after...
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Pizzini Nero d’Avola 2024

This is a successful example of the variety sitting nicely in the value spot. Black cherry liqueur, violets, plum, pepper...
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Pizzini La Volpe Nebbiolo 2024

Juicy red cherry, blood orange, redcurrant, spiced plum, chinotto, dried rose and a glimmer of tar. There’s no mistaking the...
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Pizzini Fiano 2025

This features a quiet opening with gentle notes of almond, green apple, melon and shaved fennel. It unfurls and lifts...
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SOUMAH Crescent Moon Methode Traditionelle 2020

Named in honour of the belief that vineyard work attuned to the cycles of the moon produces superior results, this...
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Hickinbotham The Nest Cabernet Franc 2022 

This comes from a block planted in 2013 with the cépage being 87% Cabernet Franc, 11% Merlot and 2% Malbec....
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Hickinbotham The Peake Cabernet Shiraz 2022 

‘Restrained richness’ is the term that springs to mind. Savoury pan juices, iodine minerality, gravel, blood plum, bay leaf lift,...
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Hickinbotham Trueman Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 

Elegant from the outset, this has notes of pimiento, bay leaf, subtle balsamic, blackcurrant, decaying leaves, plum and cedar. There’s...
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Hickinbotham Brooks Road Shiraz 2022

Pink peppercorn spice melds nicely with blueberry, blackberry and blood plum fruits to start. Some time in the glass draws...
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Willem Kurt Vermentino 2025

This is very lifted in its perfume, with sweet jasmine florals hovering above green mango skin, melon, preserved lemon and...
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Willem Kurt Chardonnay 2024

Nougat, smoky bacon fat and clotted cream sit around a lovely cut of citrus and stone-fruit drive – white peach,...
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Mitchell Peppertree Vineyard Shiraz 2019

Bright red plum melds with new leather first off, followed by dried herbs, blackberry, milk chocolate, clove, game meat and...
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Tyrrell’s Vat 1 Semillon 2019

This is very pure and precise with brilliant impact to firmly reinforce the value of Vat 1 Semillon in the...
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Tyrrell’s Vat 47 Chardonnay 2023

Brilliant lifted aromatics present from the outset with quite intensely floral tones — melon, lavender, pear, white peach, white grapefruit,...
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Tyrrell’s Vat 9 Shiraz 2023

Crushed violet, white pepper and grilled meat notes sit above plum preserves and cherry molasses. Air unlocks beautiful savoury notes...
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Tyrrell’s Vat 8 Shiraz Cabernet 2023

This is savoury in its meaty beginnings before some dark fruit notes are quick to fill things out. Iodine, grilled...
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Tyrrell’s Vat 63 Chardonnay Semillon 2023

Lemon, pear and white nectarine fruits sit fresh and pure to start, with notes of gentle toasty cedar, green apple,...
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Yelland & Papps Single Vineyard Old Vine Grenache 2024

From dry-grown Vine Vale vines planted by the Schild family in 1956. The deep sandy soils are captured beautifully here,...

Yelland & Papps Limited Cuvée Grenache 2024

The fruit for this wine came from a neglected block of low-yielding dry-grown bush vines in Marananga that were planted...
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Yelland & Papps Stone Well Syrah 2024

The fruit for this wine comes from a site scattered with pink quartz in the Stone Well sub-region. According to...
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Yelland & Papps Vin de Soif Roussanne Grenache Gris 2024

Here we have a declassified blend taken from Yelland & Papps’ single-vineyard program that didn’t quite make the cut for...
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Yelland & Papps Vin de Soif Grenache Cinsault Mourvèdre 2024

This is built around Yelland & Papps’ declassified Grenache parcels from their single-vineyard selections. Wild raspberry, a dusting of nutmeg,...
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Yelland & Papps YP Shiraz 2024 

Here we have a Shiraz made up of parcels from across the valley, including some declassified from Yelland & Papps’...
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Yelland & Papps Single Vineyard Roussanne 2024

Sourced from a single vineyard in Greenock, this is from 100% free-run juice, wild-fermented and matured in a balance of...

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Penfolds Collection 2025 – Tom Kline

2024 Penfolds Bin 23 Pinot Noir | RRP $55 | 93 points A finely wrought Pinot Noir from Tasmania, matured...
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2024 Chardonnay May – Adelaide Hills

A good rhyme always elevates a name, imbuing it with a sense of playfulness and pop while also adding intrigue...
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