From €6.95 and £6.99. Find this wine After tasting so many great 2007 Rhônes recently (see yesterday's report on last week’s tastings in eastern France),...

Every year I try to assemble a collection of wines for Financial Times readers that I think should be drinking particularly well for celebrations over the year end. There is a horrible shortage...

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...

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...

There were some very serious and well-made wines here – quite a change from the mass-market retailers. None of the wines is cheap and a few are overpriced, but they are generally satisfying....

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...

" The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different." Aldous Huxley. The Kathleen &...

Graham Nutter of Ch St-Jacques d’Albas in the Minervois (pictured) sends this report of the 2008 vintage. Summary: A year characterised by a highly variable climate and summer...

Alex Gambal, American wine producer in Burgundy, provides this fascinating account. See those revealing numbers in his section on September, along with his suggested explanation for why the...

If I had to give two words of advice to lovers of French wine today, scouting in any price range, they would be ‘o’ and ‘five’.The 2005 vintage seemed exceptional at the time virtually...

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...

From £6.75 and $11.75. Find this wine Cinsault is a southern French grape that deserves much more airtime, so congratulations to Berry Bros for showcasing this extremely comely example...

The beauty of wine is supposed to be that, unlike so much of the food and drink we eat today, it is so ‘natural’. To produce wine, as all of us wine students have been taught, all you need are...

Very, very many thanks to all of you who have contributed to our new Your views section with your extremely useful tasting notes and reviews of hotels, restaurants, bars and wine and food...

Are you really not interested in winning a long weekend in the Languedoc that is worth more than £1,000? On Tuesday I announced our Your Views Competition . We have two places on a...