I’m now back home after a week’s immersion in 2007s in Burgundy and then Châteauneuf-du-Pape with hundreds of tasting notes – a very high proportion of them favourable. Needless...

Every year I try to assemble a collection of wines for Financial Times readers that I think should be drinking particularly well for celebrations over the year end. There is a horrible shortage...

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...

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....

Mel Jones, currently working on her Master of Wine dissertation, gives us her impressions of 54 of the wines from the main range that Britain’s Majestic chose to show off to the press this...

The lowest number of barrels in 21 years went on sale at the Hospices de Beaune auction yesterday and prices for red wines were dramatically lower than last year. This year's total of...

The Union des Grands Crus have been travelling the world to show off their 2006s now that they are in bottle. Tomorrow I will provide an overview of how they tasted in London recently, both in...

Here, in some haste but in obedient response to this request on the forum, are the notes I managed to take at London wine merchant Goedhuis’s recent wallow in top quality burgundy. Allen...

It will be fascinating to see what sort of prices are fetched by the super-starry lots in two major fine wine sales to be held in Hong Kong this month. The first is to be held on...

Evening Land Vineyards is an exciting and extremely ambitious new project that spans some first class Pinot Noir sites in Oregon and California. The operation, led by former Hollywood...

If I had to give two words of advice to lovers of French wine today, scouting in any price range, they would be ‘o’ and ‘five’.The 2005 vintage seemed exceptional at the time virtually...

It seems only a moment ago that Tesco, Britain’s dominant supermarket, were moving firmly upmarket with a dramatically increased finer wine range (see Tesco – speccing up a bit? ). And it...

Find this wine From $45 and £24.78 a bottle Close followers of this site will know of my recent conversion to white Châteauneuf-du-Pape (see all these tasting notes on the...

The following selection of notes are the highlights of the Christmas list of the Wine Society, the British institution that is a mail order wine retailer owned by its members. It’s a condensed...

Both Valpolicella and Soave have an image problem not unlike that of Liebfraumilch. Too many weedy, cheap examples have undermined the reputation of these wines in the eyes of many wine...