From £6.83, €10, Can$19.99 and $22.25 Find this wine I’m highlighting this hugely appealing, well-distributed southern Rhône red because, of use to many British wine...

Twenty-two years ago I was the first British journalist to write about an American wine critic called Robert M Parker Jr. Today I bring you a completely new American force in wine communication....

Is there any point in all the words and opinion we wine commentators churn out? Do wine buyers take a blind bit of notice? Wine Intelligence is a UK-based market research consultancy specialising...

Later that same day update: I see The Sampler in London N1 is holding its own Foire aux Vins this Sunday which costs less than anything we have mentioned so far: nothing. They say, ‘We’re...

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...

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I’m so glad that I ventured into cyberspace as long ago as 2000 and have long been puzzled by how few of my British wine writing colleagues have followed suit. Now comes news that five of them...

This background article, part of our extensive free Resources section, has been substantially updated from its 2005 original to take account of costs and conditions applicable in Aug 2007 but we...

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...

In a nutshell : Pinot Noir. Main grapes : Pinot Noir (red); Pinot Gris (white). Oregon produces quite a small amount of wine but an awful lot of noise. Which is not at all...

All you need to be a wine taster is a glass and a moment's attention. A lot of unnecessary fuss is made about extraneous smells (taking that argument to its logical conclusion we'd never serve food...

Jancis on her life in wine... After a virtually wine-free childhood and teenage years in a village of 46 people in...

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...

The wines stole the show at the Broadbent v Parker tasting at London wine merchant Roberson last night. For me it was more of a beauty contest for the wines than a boxing match between...

The Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell University has just published a detailed review of the 1855 Classification of the Médoc and Graves, proposing specific revisions to it based...