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...

London wine merchant Swig , who sell 'artisan wines from around the world', has invited purple pagers to a walk-around tasting of '30 very special Italian wines' selected from the Best 100 Wines...

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...

28 Oct  - In yesterday's vote in Montalcino, 96% of Brunello producers voted to maintain the status quo in terms of varietal requirement that all Brunello be made from 100% Sangiovese...

The following selection of notes are the highlights of the Christmas list of the Wine Society, the British institution that is a mail order wine retailer owned by its members. It’s a condensed...

Puglia is not the most beautiful part of Italy. The horizon reveals endless parched scrub, littered with ancient towns cobbled together from the local limestone, and connected by cracked, dusty...

Both Valpolicella and Soave have an image problem not unlike that of Liebfraumilch. Too many weedy, cheap examples have undermined the reputation of these wines in the eyes of many wine...

First an apology to the many visitors here who do not live in the UK and are therefore not within reach of a branch of our most famous retailer (especially of underwear - hence the image, not...

“I’m a real Chianti girl”, proudly claimed Emanuela Stucchi Prinetti, owner of highly acclaimed Tuscan estate Badia a Coltibuono. Dressed all in black, with dark hair pulled back, this...

Friday just past saw a bitter confrontation between some of the principal protagonists in the Brunellogate affair in a Face to Face Debate held in Siena. The ones responsible for the scandal are...

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

Wine writer Monty Waldin, quite coincidentally producer of this week’s wine of the week , has been visiting the troubled Montalcino zone on a regular basis since 2004. Over the last...

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...

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....

Marks & Spencer has been one of Britain’s totemic retailers, a relatively upmarket operation that for at least a generation had a stranglehold, if that is not an inappropriate term, on...