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...

This line up of more than 50 wines from one of Europe's less well-known wine producing countries came about thanks to the enthusiastic response of a purple pager to a trip to Luxembourg...

German wine specialist Michael Schmidt very kindly offered to share with us his tasting notes taken at the official launch of the top German wines of the 2007 vintage in Wiesbaden at the end of...

2007 Unusual vintage during which a hot April and record early flowering was followed by a very cool summer but then the grapes were ripened, after a suitably extended growing season, by...

Michael Oates is reading Chinese at St Anne's, my old Oxford college, although that's not how I know him. It was purple pager Martin Nettleton who knows his uncle and put us together. Michael...

Jancis on her life in wine... After a virtually wine-free childhood and teenage years in a village of 46 people in...

This is a co-operative that has been living through a complete culture change over the last few years, motivated by market imperatives and urged on by the dynamic team in charge of winemaking,...

It has taken some time for me to publish the next lot of tasting notes from one of the little notebooks I keep with me for significant wines enjoyed at well-laden tables. The first appeared here...

“Why are there no dry wines?” asked a crestfallen Joris Bjein, the sommelier of Andaz, the new incarnation of London’s Great Eastern Hotel, at Justerini & Brooks’...

I really do have the greatest job in the world. The following treasures from the Kloster Eberbach cellars of the Hessische Staatsweingüter, or state winery, were served at a dinner I was...

      In an article to be published tomorrow, I will describe the continuing current extension of the world’s wine map towards the South Pole with special...

I sat with two Australian winemakers in Rowley Leigh’s Café Anglais last week cursing Bridget Jones. Phil Sexton, Steve Flamsteed and I, plus 14 bottles of wine, had met up to...

Think of Italian wine and what do you see? Something deep purple or dusky crimson? While it’s true that Italy makes far more red than white, the dramatically improved whites of the...

Those who travel in Germany and Austria know perfectly well how many fine red wines are now made and sold in those countries, but many wine lovers elsewhere are still unaware of the red wine...

Admittedly the notes below will be of interest mainly to UK-based purple pagers but even those elsewhere may be interested in the sort of wines of which one of the world's most powerful retailers...