A friendly reminder on Champagne Day that there’s no reason to wait to drink bubbly wines. Plus, a recipe to facilitate the ...

In three tastings over four days in California I was lucky enough to taste some real rarities, mature California wine. The ...

An A-team of Bordeaux estates – Cheval Blanc, Lafite Rothschild, Petrus and Yquem – lends a hand to their up-and-coming ...

A pioneering region-wide lightweight bottle is launched today ahead of the Sustainability in Drinks event tomorrow.  Alentejo may not be Portugal’s most famous wine region but in my view it is the ...

Below is a rough guide to what our numbers mean. Although we are not very comfortable with scoring wines because it is so difficult to encapsulate a wine's qualities in a single score, we do realise ...

China, vast Asian country with its own indigenous vine species (see vitis) but a relatively short modern tradition of growing… ...

Albania’s former dictator, Enver Hoxha, was paranoid about being invaded by any one – or all – of his perceived enemies – the ...

In the small, transparent 2024 vintage, Germany’s Pinot shows that no one Pinot fits all. Above, the Zellerweg am Schwarzen ...

Specifically, California table wine. Devoted to small-scale California winemakers, oriented towards non-interventionist wines and filled with wine fans in art-punk T-shirts and producers with an ...

Exceptionally hot, dry conditions took their toll, the harvest one of, if not the, earliest ever, with yields down though ...

It seems incredible now but when I started writing about wine, on 1 December 1975, the best-selling wine in Britain, and important enough in the US to warrant major advertising campaigns, was a sweet ...