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....

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....

Details are sketchy, but the sale of Chateau Montelena , Napa Valley landmark winery, to Swiss businessman Michel Reybier, owner of Bordeaux’s Chateau Cos d’Estournel, is off, with Montelena...

A few months ago I was introduced to the new wine label, Evening Land Vineyards (see tasting notes and more background here ), which produces some particularly impressive wines from Oregon and...

To the surprise of no one, except perhaps an egotistical chef or two, Thomas Keller’s The French Laundry in Napa Valley (whose modest Yountville premises are pictured here) is the lone...

For me the sweetest smell in recent memory is that of cheese straws through floorboards. I was in the basement of a house in Islington, North London, one of a dozen tasters rating anonymous...

At least two California producers are doing their bit in sometimes innovative ways for the environment. Fetzer bottles go on a diet Adding to the growing list of wine producers...

Where I live (Sonoma), one must shop long and hard to find a representative sampling of serious South African wines. The cheap and cheerfuls are here, yet the top bottles are difficult to find...

See below for Linda Murphy's contribution. David Lett, the man who led Oregon into ambitious vine growing in general and the cuttings of Pinot Noir he planted in the 1960s (see...

It is difficult to exaggerate how much Argentine wines have changed in the last few years. But perhaps that is not so surprising considering that the world’s fifth most important wine producer...

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...

Here is a palate-whetter for my massive set of Argentine tasting notes to be published tomorrow - among them some extremely exciting wines. I recently saw Nicolas Catena of Argentina,...

Those of us at the outer spokes rather than at the world’s financial hubs are understandably keen to know how the current economic turmoil will affect our particular sphere. Early reports...

From $4.99 and £7. Find this wine Have I gone mad? Choosing a California Chardonnay made by the world’s biggest wine company that can be found in the US for as little as $4.99...

The best known running joke in California wine country is of course: How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Start with a large one. This continues to tell the hard truth of...