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The day before He is the kind of man, indeed, to whom I should never refuse anything. Except it wasn’t a wedding proposal but a tasting invitation; and it wasn’t from Darcy but from DRC. Both are offers one simply cannot refuse. Specifically, this was a tasting of the Domaine de la. More...

There has so far been only one thing wrong with the Eighth International Cool Climate Symposium here in Tasmania: the weather. As I write on Thursday evening just before the gala dinner to be cooked by famous Sydney chef Tetsuya Wakuda 'and local top chefs' (don't eat out in Hobart tnight), I am. More...

It is often said that wine takes itself too seriously. That is indeed a grave shortcoming. However, when wine doesn't take its seriously enough, the results are no better, and the images below go some way to proving it. They were sent to us by Gerald Weisl of San Francisco wine merchant. More...

We have been enjoying the plethora of Burgundy 2010 tastings in London this week, even if our awareness of our duty to you to taste as many wines as possible has weighed slightly heavily on our shoulders. Julia is now off on a well-earned break in the southern hemisphere, having taken a. More...

This is the week that the UK fine wine trade goes mad for burgundy, or more particularly for showing samples of 16-month-old burgundy to their better-heeled customers and hoping to persuade them to invest considerable sums in it. Much will doubtless be made of the fact that the crop in 2010 was. More...

If there’s one thing I love more than a really good pun, it’s a really bad pun. The more groan-some the better. It’s almost compulsive for me, which means I’m devoting far too much time to thinking up the title for my MW dissertation. You know, something like:  They never. More...

This is the final set of wine (and calvados) book reviews from our hard-working, irreverent and completely independent reviewer in Ireland. Naked Wine Letting Grapes Do What Comes Naturally Alice Feiring Da Capo Press £15.99/$24 For Feiring's. More...

For an introduction, read Paul O'Doherty's thoughts on  The state of wine publishing . See also his earlier instalments in Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3 . A Toast to Bargain Wines How Innovators, Iconoclasts, and Winemaking Revolutionaries are Changing the Way the World. More...

For an introduction, read Paul O'Doherty's thoughts on  The state of wine publishing . See also Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 4 of his reviews. Tokaji Wine Fame, Fate, Tradition Miles Lambert-Gócs Ambell Press/Wine Appreciation Guide £20/$31. More...

For an introduction, read Paul O'Doherty's thoughts on The state of wine publishing , followed by more reviews in  Part 1 , Part 3 and Part 4 . Wine Wars The Curse of the Blue Nun, The Miracle of Two Buck Chuck and the Revenge of the Terroirists Mike Veseth Rowman and. More...