Last night Hugh Johnson and I launched Hallwag's German edition of the latest, 6th edition of the World Atlas of Wine in Munich’s Literaturhaus, a sort of literary restaurant in one of...

This book may be subtitled 'The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine' but I am deeply indebted to Benjamin Wallace, author of the latest account of the Rodenstock affair, The...

British wine writers are in introspective mode. Many of the handful who enjoy established reputations and a perch in the national press seem to be being squeezed, in terms of both space and...

Anyone remotely interested in fine wine should read this excellent article on Wine Spectator's website. Energetically run by the relatively youthful John Kapon, Acker Merrall & Condit...

See also this thread in members' forum. We are all against wine fraud – right? In the UK my colleague Jim Budd does an admirable job highlighting characters who encourage investment...

See also Howard G Goldberg's report on the latest report in Der Stern.   Wine, liquid and unpredictable, could hardly be easier to doctor unfortunately, even to a standard...

Reid Rapport, Old Vines Wines (nothing prior to 1970), FL: Please find ibelow the converted text concerning a 1427 conviction in London for "Sophisticating" wines...

The Wall Street Journal has this cracker of a story about the suits filed last week in New York by William Koch of Florida and in San Francisco by Russell Frye in connection with alleged fake...

A purple pager, tempted by an Yquem tasting being organised by Bipin Desai of southern California, wrote the other day to ask for my tasting notes from Hardy...

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Is California dreaming? - an extraordinary assessment of the cult wines that cost more than Bordeaux's first growths. For 200 years Bordeaux was the red wine capital of the world and its wine...