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Here is a quick guide to finding your way round our  wide-ranging coverage to date of the very promising 2010 vintage in Burgundy with its more than 2,000 wine reviews.  TASTING NOTES/REVIEWS Burgundy 2010 A-C  (Tasting articles)  Burgundy 2010 D-J. More...

This Wednesday evening a sale of very fancy wine is scheduled to take place at London's Mandarin Oriental hotel. Organised jointly by Spectrum and Vanquish, it has excited considerable online comment. See, for example, this thread on our forum and another on winebeserkers.com .. More...

See also my tasting notes on the current Vigno wines. As someone who writes wine reference books, I am truly scared by Chile and its unparalleled pace of change. I asked two people to bring me up to speed on the newest wine regions there - writer and broadcaster Peter Richards, the. More...

Last week's Australia Day tasting witnessed the final of the University Wine Champions at the Saatchi Gallery in London. An initiative dreamt up by the reinvigorated UK branch of generic body Wine Australia, the competition involved eight teams, with Oxford and Edinburgh Universities reaching the. More...

Anyone who takes a long-focus view of the earth can see that we are using up our resources far too fast. I'm delighted that awareness of the ecological effects of the use of heavyweight bottles, both in terms of production and transport, is now much more widespread than it was when I started. More...

See more than 2,000 tasting notes on 2010 burgundies via this complete guide to our coverage of the vintage. The minutely parcellated and carefully groomed vineyards on the east-facing slope known in France as the Côte d'Or, the pale stone of the medieval buildings and, most of. More...

Firstly, very many thanks to the 268 Purple Pagers who took the trouble to complete our six-question survey designed to quantify the level of interest in tasting notes on Bordeaux 2011 primeurs this April. These survey results (see below) complement all the comments made on the Who is interested. More...

It was announced with regret today that owing to ill health, Nick Dobson Wines will cease trading in 2012. A member of the Association of Small Direct Wine Merchants, Nick Dobson is known for the particularly good selection of Swiss wines as well as hand-picked producers from Austria, Germany,. More...

The next time you're popping into Selfridge's on Oxford Street to pick up a Tiffany necklace or a Hermès handbag, you might also want to check out their wine by the glass. Their Wonder Bar is currently dispensing a rather regal range of wines available from Enomatic machines in pours of 25 ml,. More...

The survey is now closed. Thanks so much to all 268 Purple Pagers who were kind enough to share their views with us. Today is the last day of our brief survey  designed to assess Purple Pagers' level of interest in Bordeaux 2011 primeurs. There are just six multiple choice questions. We. More...