Videos/Podcasts

On our last night in Japan we were taken to Kojyo, the celebrated Tokyo restaurant where reservations are incredibly difficult to come by, apparently. It's basically a top-quality sushi bar that, despite having at least six staff, serves just six people at a single, simple wooden counter.. More...

Below are three short films which show some very different aspects of the small but intriguing north-west Spanish wine region Cigales (see my tasting notes and a major overview in Cigales - between a rock and a hard place ). First off, a look at the extraordinary soils of some of the. More...

In between the two tasting sessions devoted to a century of Riesling at Kloster Eberbach was this dinner, to which the local great and good were invited. Also in the monks' refectory. The high point of a stunning but too-copious dinner was a run of an almost obscene number of 2005 TBAs, to which. More...

In this short film, free for all and not just for Purple pagers, Jesús Barquín, professor of criminology at the University of Granada and fount of all modern sherry knowledge (put 'barquin' in our general site search box), explains what has to happen before sherry is fully embraced by the fine. More...

Marvel at how impressed Linden Wilkie of The Fine Wine Experience and wine writer Margaret Rand were by a recent tasting in London.  It opened their eyes to just how good this sort of wine could be.  More details to follow... More...

In last week's wine of the week, I promised to publish an account of a tasting lunch at Le Gavroche in London with the new man at Ch Lagrange in St-Julien. Bruno Eynard took over from Marcel Ducasse and is seen here with my fellow guests.  You may recognise them. See my tasting. More...

The Australians' annual presentation of their wines to the trade and media in their most important export market the UK has long been one of the leading events in the UK wine trade calendar. Now that the Oz export engine appears to have run out of steam, it surely takes on even greater. More...

In this short film, new, small, upmarket négociant Olivier Bernstein discusses how 2008 and 2009 compare with each other and with previous vintages.  You can read more about Bernstein in Notes from Gevrey-Chambertin .   More...

Learn, sort of, how to prune a vine - so much easier to see against the snow - in this short film made by Richard Hemming at last week's Master of Wine first-year educational seminar in Rust, Austria. Tomorrow we'll publish his written account of it. More...

Last week, jostling for attention with all those burgundy 2008 tastings in London, came a substantial delegation of wine producers from ... Japan.  Seen here are scenes from the inaugural export tasting of wines made from Japan's own grape Koshu. As you can see in this short film shot in. More...