Norm Roby, Author at Wine Review Online

Torbreck Vintners, Barossa Valley (Australia) Semillon 2022

by Norm Roby | Mar 8, 2023

While so many wine regions have abandoned Semillon as a table wine, Torbreck and other Aussies have stuck with it. ...

by Norm Roby | Mar 8, 2023

Sacha Lichine learned the trade at his family’s Bordeaux property, Chateau Prieure-Lichine and later went out on his...

by Norm Roby | Mar 1, 2023

Here is a relatively new entry level white from the family owning the fabled Domaine de La Solitude...

by Norm Roby | Mar 1, 2023

This a small, family owned venture with the father running the business and the U.C. Davis-trained son making the...

by Norm Roby | Feb 22, 2023

This winery began in 2005 and has become one of the great wine stories in recent years. If you haven’t heard...

by Norm Roby | Feb 22, 2023

In business since 1849, Yalumba is a big, family-owned winery that continues to surprise. Though billed as “a...

by Norm Roby | Feb 15, 2023

Yet another seemingly obscure variety, Inzolia I found out has long grown in Sicily and until recently was primarily a...

by Norm Roby | Feb 15, 2023

Nero d’Avola remains Sicily’s most widely planted wine variety, and here’s a version made by a winery...

by Norm Roby | Feb 7, 2023

From a vineyard within the Donnybrook sub-region, this Shiraz comes with all of the swagger its name implies, but shows...

by Norm Roby | Feb 7, 2023

When it comes to quality red wines for the price, the smart money is on Chile. There are many wineries in the game, but...

by Norm Roby | Jan 31, 2023

A sub-region of the San Antonio Valley, Leyda is one of Chile’s coolest growing zones. And this wine displays...

by Norm Roby | Jan 31, 2023

Araucano is part of the international program of brothers Jacques and Francois Lurton whose father, Andre, is a Bordeaux...