Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The following 35 wines...

Klaus Peter Keller (pictured here with his wife Julia) provides some phenological data for 2008 in his vineyards around Flörsheim-Dalsheim in Rheinhessen followed by his impressions of the...

Italy does quite well for wine guides but some of them are pretty unwieldy. Gambero Rosso’s Italian wines , for example, well known for its tre bicchiere (three glasses) awards,...

The 2008 California growing season had it all: frost, wind, drought, heat and smoke from massive wildfires. With more adversity than vintners are accustomed to in this typically easy-peasy region,...

Believe it or not, the wine range at the decidedly downmarket ASDA supermarket chain, now owned by Walmart, has been revitalised by a Francophile Master of Wine. Philippa Carr MW admits that she...

The following 18 Italian Rieslings were shown at the recent Riselingfest   in Alto Adige described here .  ( Pretty picture of very ripe Riesling grapes in Alsace by Mick Rock...

I tasted these 50 red Rhône wines back in May for British Airways business class. There is nothing sinister in the long delay between tasting and publishing – just a build-up of so many...

The UK news last night and this morning has been dominated by the Chancellor's pre-budget report to the House of Commons. In addition to a range of tax changes, all intended to get people...

Latest update : On 24 Nov, McGuire said in a prepared statement, “The current economic crisis has made it difficult to obtain capital and applied additional pressure to our financial...

The following tasting notes are compiled from several different tastings held in London in September and October by various importers and merchants. They are organised by style, then...

Bisso Atanassov, longstanding purple pager who was for long based in Moscow but who is now studying for a master's degree in viticulture and oenology in Montpellier, sends this report on how the...

Restaurant-goers are responding with commendable common sense to the current economic downturn in ways that have striking similarities to such responses in the early 1980s, when I naively opened...

Over the first eight months of 2008, international exports of French wine decreased by 10% in volume, so perhaps it's good news that the French ministry of agriculture is forecasting a...

There were some very serious and well-made wines here – quite a change from the mass-market retailers. None of the wines is cheap and a few are overpriced, but they are generally satisfying....

Below are notes on some top-quality wines that are actually ready to drink, and available to British wine lovers by the single bottle – admittedly provided another 11 are bought....