Pale: if you hold a red wine at a 45-degree angle over a book and can easily read through it, it’s pale. For white wines, if the wine has a broad, watery (nearly colourless) rim, it’s pale.

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 ...

Kolorko in Türkiye and Furmint in Tokaj share several features: they are both late ripening, with thick-skinned berries; they ...

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

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 ...

What I am proposing is a new social contract between wine producers, the hospitality industry and consumers – herewith.

The last of three articles devoted to the 200-odd 2022 bordeaux tasted blind in this year’s Southwold-on-Thames tastings. See ...

Many a year in the Southwold tastings the Merlot-based wines on the right bank are outclassed by the Cabernet Sauvignon-based ...

Setting side 2024, it was quite clear that in general the Loire’s dynamic vine-growers no longer have to struggle to ripen ...

The first of three reports on this year’s blind tasting of significant four-year-old bordeaux. See Bordeaux 2022 – a guide ...