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....

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...

Every year, Spanish wine writer José Peñîn and his team taste more than 8,000 wines to produce their annual wine guide, the Guia Peñín . For the second year running, I went to Madrid to...

As a recent newcomer to London, one of my favourite weekend quests involves finding local wine retailers with interesting selections and decent prices. Not exactly a mission...

On 27 Feb this year, duty rates on all alcohol except spirits were abolished in Hong Kong in a move intended to establish the city as a fine wine hub to rival the likes of London and New York...

While their bigger and more downmarket rivals offer increasingly cut-throat deals on wine (three bottles for £10 or even £9) to lure customers into their stores to buy food etc, Waitrose has...

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...

Lindsay Hamilton, pictured here, finally files this report of the UK wine trade wedding of the year. It got left on the computer in his country residence, apparently, so has taken some time to...

A colleague on the Financial Times recently sent me this query: Can I ask you to settle a mild debate on Champagne with an oenophile friend? He maintains that many bottles carry two...

Those who watched the video interview with the new owner of Oddbins will know that a new broom has been swept very firmly though the wine range here - especially the French range.   This...

These are the notes from an amazing recent tasting organised in London by MARC Fine Wines of a range of 22 top vintages of Penfolds Grange back to the legendary 1955. See Putting Grange back on...

Our party of eight, which included six first timers to El Bulli , met up in the bar of the Hotel Terraza in the nearest town, Roses on the Costa Brava, for a glass of champagne before our taxis...

In the current financial turmoil, life is, most unfortunately, likely to become increasingly tough for the noble army of independent wine merchants. The supermarkets will attract those shoppers...

See related thread in Members' forum On Monday, Heston Blumenthal unveiled some brand new research into sherry and food-matching. His famed scientific approach has resulted in some...

Our intrepid sybarite correspondent Lindsay Hamilton, who retired from his co-ownership of Farr Vintners earlier this year, sends us another report of another lunch – and more travails on the...