Last September I was invited by Berlucchi, the winery credited with creating sparkling Franciacorta when it produced the ...

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti could have made twice as much wine this year if they hadn’t felt compelled to make severe, ...

Chinese wines to ring in the New Year – or anytime, really, now that this portfolio is available in the UK. The convivial, wine-loving Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai once heartily suggested to his companion ...

When Ferran Centelles mentioned that we would be in Barcelona he asked to join us for dinner. But whether it was our company or Ferran’s choice of restaurant that was the driving factor was something ...

The Bordeaux vintage tasted most recently at the blind-tasting marathon held every January at Farr Vintners’ Thameside offices in London, 2022, is bittersweet.

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Plus, a trade deal for China and South Africa, falling French wine and spirits exports, a legal case in Australia, and congratulations to Andrew Jefford, awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from ...

Not this one. Aôri’s Muscat of Spina is all about the mountain vineyard and the ungrafted centenarian vines. It’s bone dry, complex, slightly herbal, very fresh and persistent, with a notably salty ...

Part six of an eight-part series on how to pair wine with Asian flavours, adapted from Richard’s book. Click here for all the ...

1947 first growths a-go-go. Things were very different when this annual tasting got off the ground. Above, at the prototype tasting in 1980, left to right, an unknown taster, John Thorogood, Liz Morco ...

Like some of the lesser right-bank wines, the less concentrated examples from the left bank demonstrated that you really did need fruit weight to stand up to the hefty tannic charge of the 2022s. This ...