The first meal I shared with Simon Maxwell, Director of the Overseas Development Institute, was dinner in the wood-panelled Hotel Schatzalp in Davos , Switzerland, during the World Economic...

Below are my notes on 66 wines shown in London recently, supposedly because they were all given either 5 or 4.5 stars in the 2008 Platter Guide (although in the event the UK importers...

Keith Mugford of the prime Margaret River producer Moss Wood replies at length to some of my recent observations about his wines and the Australian wine industry, hoping, he says, that...

The annual offer of cult Napa Valley Cabernet Screaming Eagle’s latest vintage was mailed out at the end of last week to the few thousand who have made it on to the winery’s mailing...

See also The New Australia - 250 tasting notes. The Australian wine industry is in flux. Supplies of inexpensive wine produced with maximum added water and minimum human hand that have...

See also my overview Australia changes its focus , Australian Rieslings and Australian Semillons . Below are tasting notes on about 250 mostly really interesting...

See Latour, Harlan, Screaming Eagle, Moss Wood, Vergelegen... for more details of the tastings described below. I host wine tastings reasonably regularly and am used to keeping an...

As described in detail in Mining, wining and dining in Davos , last week's World Economic Forum for me consisted not of solving the world’s problems but tasting some great wine...

As I climbed into the funicular on the way down from the Schatzalp restaurant above Davos, Switzerland, I was joined by someone who, like me, had not been offered the choice of a toboggan ride...

See Bill Baker - the movie . The funeral of this much-loved wine trade stalwart will be held at 2pm on Thursday, 7 Feb at Wells Cathedral.  Donations to charity, in Bill's name, may...

The media concentrated on the gloom, doom and chill winds that were suppposed to have dominated the 2008 World Economic Forum at Davos last week but I must say that in the four...

  After a hard day networking and discussing such topics as North Korea’s Mysterious Geopolitical End Game, Regulation and Financial Market Competition and Simple Cell...

Find Branaire 197 0 Find Cos Labory 2003 Those of you who read about my  Classic claret tasting last week in Davos might like to know that the bargain of the lot was...

  Find these wines This must be the finest co-op wine in the world, and one of the best-value French wines available anywhere. It dazzled those who attended my second...

At the World Economic Forum in Davos last week it was difficult to ignore climate change and discussion of its pervasive effects. You might be interested to see this excellent recent...