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Below are notes on some top-quality wines that are actually ready to drink, and available to British wine lovers by the single bottle – admittedly provided another 11 are bought.... |
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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... |
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British wine warehouse chain Majestic Wine announced its half-yearly results today, featuring a slide in profitablity that reflects the grim economic conditions of recent times. For the six... |
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In the second of our collections of tasting notes on some of the great fortified wines, Victoria looks at some of the most venerable sherries on the market. The VOS and VORS... |
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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... |
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Almost all wine-producing countries are making better and better wines every year but I am seriously impressed by how much more refined Argentine wines are today than they were even two or three... |
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See Sauvignon – methoxypyrazines v thiols for the background to this tasting in London with Saint Clair winemaker Matt Thomson (pictured left). I have given UK stockists and/or... |
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A & B Vintners Little Tawsden Spout Lane Brenchley Kent TN12 7AS tel +44 (0)1892 724977 fax +44 (0)1892 722673 info@abvintners.co.uk... |
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See more London wine dinners here . The autumn wine dinner season in London is in sight. Below are details of four particularly appetising prospects: an Armand Rousseau burgundy... |
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2007 Very wet spring, a patchy summer but the vintage was saved by decent weather in September. 2006 Very promising. As elsewhere in France, the region experienced a very mixed... |
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2007 A dank summer led to rotten Pinot Noir grapes and the need for extremely strict selection. The vintage is unlikely to notch up record scores. 2006 Poor summer with vine health... |
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I’m not a huge enthusiast for the sexual stereotyping of wines but even I can see that Cabernet Franc might be described as the feminine side of Cabernet Sauvignon. It is subtly fragrant and... |
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Chardonnay's a funny grape. It is arguably the most popular in the world, and yet most of those who love it would find it difficult to describe exactly what it tastes of. The truth, I suspect,... |
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I'm not a huge enthusiast of the sexual stereotyping of wines but even I can see that Cabernet Franc might be described as the feminine side of Cabernet Sauvignon. It is subtly fragrant and... |
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I wonder how many of the wine drinkers who lap up Australia's rich, sturdy Shirazes realise that they are made from the very same grape as some of France's finest, and rarest, reds, the twin jewels... |
