Italy does quite well for wine guides but some of them are pretty unwieldy. Gambero Rosso’s Italian wines , for example, well known for its tre bicchiere (three glasses) awards,...

Believe it or not, the wine range at the decidedly downmarket ASDA supermarket chain, now owned by Walmart, has been revitalised by a Francophile Master of Wine. Philippa Carr MW admits that she...

An ambitious tasting of Italian Rieslings held in Alto Adige on 8 Nov showed that Italy needs to focus on terroir if it wants to pick up the German gauntlet. This annual competition...

Tamlyn Currin started doing wine classes with Michael Schmidt about five years ago, and then went down the more conventional route by doing the WSET Intermediate and Advanced in...

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...

Willi Klinger was Angelo Gaja’s right hand man from 2000 to 2006. Here are his most memorable restaurants in the Langhe region of Piedmont, updates from the previous edition of this list in...

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...

New legislative proposals will dilute Prosecco still further. The Consorzio Tutela del Vino Prosecco DOC di Conegliano (pictured) e Valdobbiadene, the association of Prosecco producers from the...

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...

Dodie Miller has been the attractive and passionate conduit for distributing the most authentic Mexican ingredients to both professional and amateur chefs across the UK for the past 15 years....

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...