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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...

In a nutshell: Dry, sometimes beefy red wines designed for ageing. Grapes: Syrah (red); Marsanne, Roussanne, Viognier (white). It's not difficult to see why vine-growing is...

2007 Very wet spring, a patchy summer but the vintage was saved by decent weather in September. 2006 Very promising. As elsewhere in France, the region experienced a very mixed...

In this series of tasting notes on the range of wines currently offered by  significant British retailers, we have only Oddbins' summer selection and a range of Tesco's Finest left to go....

Here at last are a hundred tasting notes on some of the leading 2006s from the northern Rh ô ne. (See also Southern Rhône 2006s continued , Jaboulet’s 2006s ,...

This is the start of a new series – sets of tasting notes painstakingly transcribed by a wine-loving genius cryptographer. They were originally scrawled in one of the little notebooks I...

Find Boulay’s Sancerres outside the UK   This week’s wine is as much news story as recommendation. American wine lovers have been enjoying Gérard and Thibauilt...

Below are almost 120 (as opposed to the 75 in the list published in  free for all on Saturday) of my favourite reds available in the UK by the single bottle chosen from thousands...

Below are my favourite reds available in the UK by the single bottle chosen from thousands tasted over the past three months. They are listed in ascending price order with UK stockists and...

One of the many legacies of Australia’s Mr Wine Len Evans (see articles below) is the annual Len Evans Tutorial Scholarship, a wine tasting workshop for some of Australia’s...

Jaboulet’s new UK importer Liberty Wines held a fascinating tasting of the wines of this flagship Hermitage producer in London last week. Most of the wines were pairs, one from the 2005...

The weather in 2001 in the northern Rhône was rather like the wines - a mixed bag. February and March were wet but warm, April was cold and dry, May discouragingly humid. Flowering was...

We have finally completed the process of accurately ‘tagging’ all the articles in the site's database after weeks of (t)agonizing editing and formatting.   What is a...

Cornas and I have not always seen eye to eye. Seven years ago I was so unmoved by a tasting of some of supposedly smart wines from this famous appellation that I wrote Cornas – an old but...