Imagine starting up a wine business where there is a 400-year history of viticulture but vineyard land can cost as little as $1,160 a hectare, or $470 an acre! This is the recently renascent...

Georgia has one of the world’s oldest and most vibrant wine cultures. She can and frequently does lay claim to being the birthplace of viticulture and attributes the longevity of many Georgians...

Those familiar with the wines of Sonoma’s Chalk Hill Estate Vineyards & Winery, and the magnificent Healdsburg estate itself, should know that Peggy Furth now holds the reins - and...

The International Wine Challenge and the even longer-running UK-based International Wine & Spirit Competition have both just announced this year’s results, presumably to coincide with...

In the wake of Bisso’s recent update on wine in Russia , Joachim Binz of Wineconsale GmbH based in Wiesbaden, Germany, sends this update on the current state of the Georgian wine market....

Bisso Atanassov of Simple Wine News sends this report on recently released figures on wine in Russia last year. It sounds like a market that could interest producers of the cheapest possible...

Leading Australian wine auctioneers Langton’s have just released their Top 500 List of Australia’s highest wine auction prices compiled from over 123,000 transactions which took place...

In the space of six months, wine will have taken me to Brazil, China, Korea, Slovenia and a desert in New Mexico – places I never dreamt would be on the itinerary of even the most curious...

Find this wine Anyone who watched Hugh Johnson’s television series on the history of wine back in the late 1980s will know what a special place Georgia (Black Sea, not the...

You may remember that purple pager Roger Jones of the Michelin-starred Harrow at Little Bedwyn kindly offered lunch for six in aid of Wine Relief earlier this year.   The...

Editor:   Jancis Robinson OBE, MW, D Univ   Assistant Editor :   Julia Harding MW   Viticulture Editor:   Dr Richard E....

Aeyal Gross, Tel Aviv: Please, please, please help. In 2001 everyone was raving about what a great vintage it is for German wines so I stocked up some. Then in 2002.... and then in...

Andrew McKinna, Bermuda: Hope you have a breeze to provide relief from the heat in your corner of the south of France: everyone we talk to from California to New York to Bordeaux seems...

Bisso, Simple Wine Co, Moscow : Re The New Russian effect on wine - Though I am not Russian by birth, but I play for "team Russia " here, so I have to comment....

The Marchese de’ Frescobaldi, prominent Florentine noblemen since the 13 th century, have turned to perhaps the most obvious source of new money for help in maintaining their recent fine...