Jancis recommends

I love this new map of French wine regions, the Metro Wine Map of France devised by architectural theorist David Gissen of San Francisco and published by Purple pager Steve De Long of London. Both of them studied architecture in the 1990s, which helped to build. More...

I know this is a wine website and so I shouldn't really go off-piste, but I do occasionally allow myself to do so in this obscure corner of the site and I hope you will indulge me in this holiday season. For those of us in the northern hemisphere, it is high summer and many of us are looking. More...

And now for quite a different liquid...  Now that it is starting to hot up for those of us in the northern hemisphere, this seemed a good time to recommend a product that I've discovered relatively recently which really does seem to be superior. Our older daughter is very prone to. More...

Why did no-one draw my attention to the best wine-based April Fool of all? And created by purple pager Steve De Long to boot. Much funnier than decanter.com's all-too-believable story that the French were to ban drinking alcohol in pavement cafes, and even our own powdered wine spoof .. More...

If you are a regular and particularly curious visitor to this site you may have wondered what on earth this section called Jancis recommends is all about. It is certainly the least frequently updated one. But the idea is that I share with you my particular discoveries and enthusiasms - not. More...

9 Sep 2012 See below for an addition from Swiss botanist and co-author of Wine Grapes , Dr José Vouillamoz, Those of you who have followed this website from its tentative first steps in late 2000 and have memorised every word (can such a person exist?) may well be aware of milk thistle. More...