See tasting notes on more than 200 wines under £10 a bottle. Only once have I been criticised for the subject matter of my regular columns for the Financial Times . Some years ago a member of the traditional British wine trade ticked me off for stooping to mention some of the... More...

An email from friends in Australia presented me with an immediate, professional challenge.  They were due to arrive in London in two days' time; they would be free on only one busy weekday evening; and they wanted to have dinner around 8 pm somewhere close to Green Park station. I... More...

From €7.80, £11.99, 18 Swiss francs Find this wine Some of the worst wine I have tasted since I started writing about wine was what was available the one time we went on holiday to the far-eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus in 1983. The whites showed the... More...

The day after my Faro tasting I was picked up from Messina by an elegantly clad lady who greeted me with a radiant smile while introducing herself as Enza La Fauci. She is the proprietor of a small estate of the same name in the Faro DOC. La Fauci does not show her wines at the annual Assovini... More...