One of the things I couldn’t help noticing on my recent trip to New York (apart from the fact that there seemed to be some sort of election on) was how much more embedded in the bar and...

The Argentine wine scene continues to be affected by the arrival of new Chilean investors who have so far invested in areas such as Luján de Cuyo, La Consulta, Perdriel and Agrelo. Based on...

Philip Harper is a great advertisement for the rejuvenating properties of sake. Although now 42, he still looks just like the recent graduate (Oxford, German and English Literature) he was in 1988...

Is there no end to Berry Bros’ imperialistic ambitions? Not content with owning most of St James’s in London, they are already oldtimers in both Hong Kong and Ireland with a thriving retail...

Like many Chinese vine growers, Japan’s wine producers have to cope with summer monsoons. In some cases bunches may even be individually protected from the rain, such is the level of care...

List of maps by country France Burgundy Côte d’Or: The Quality Factor Beaune town plan Côte de Beaune: Santenay Côte de Beaune: Meursault Côte de Beaune:...

Find this wine I found this wine via an extremely circuitous route. Hugh Johnson asked me en passant whether I had tasted a range of French wines...

Find this wine . Ensaios means ‘experiments’ in Portuguese but this wine seems less an experiment – with possible connotations of a work in progress - than the...

Hakkasan serves contemporary Chinese food in a basement off a cul-de-sac in a rather nondescript location just behind Tottenham Court Road tube station. Nobu delivers modern Japanese food...

“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’...

The Japanese wine market is evolving steadily with more education and global awareness, but Japan remains a modest wine-consuming country. Although Japan has already experienced some...

Find this wine First a little untangling of the wine name: Vigneti Massa , the name of Walter Massa’s wine company; Derthona , is dialect for Tortona (see below); Timorasso is the...

The success of O Fournier’s Urban 2007 Maule in my tasting of Southern Chilean wines prompts me to bring the expanding O Fournier group of wineries in Spain, Argentina and now Chile to...

Anyone keen to buy into the 2007 vintage but less than enthusiastic about bordeaux should think seriously about Germany’s exceptional 2007 vintage. Europe’s weird weather pattern last...

The reason I went to Germany at the end of April (and tasted all those relics described here yesterday) was for the most amazing tasting of 22 great German Rieslings that represented the entire...