In a nutshell : The world's most neglected wine treasure. Main grape : Palomino (white). Many modern wine drinkers will look at this section and wonder why on earth I think it...

Find the Rioja Find the Mallorcan Yesterday in A sandpaper seven from Spain I highlighted some of the more aggressively textured wines that I came across in my tasting of New...

Here is a slow whirl round those producers kind enough to have supplied a bottle of one of their finest Rieslings for a memorable tasting of 100 years of Riesling at Schloss Johannisberg last...

Has the magic gone out of wine? This could be said to have been the over-arching theme of a rare two days of discussion between some of the world’s most respected winemakers and wine...

At the Wine Creator conference in Ronda I had a chance to talk to a few sigificant wine producers about what was going on in their regions. Here's Peter Sisseck of Dominio de Pingus on the way...

In the members' forum we have been discussing the vineyard development planned by those who underwrote the recent Ronda conference so I thought I'd publish the short video I filmed  of one...

On my last trip to California, I was given a lift by Screaming Eagle’s vivacious vineyard manager Annie Favia. She had already told me with some pride that she also made her own range of...

Here's some footage shot during the very noisy lunch after the first session of the Wine Creator conference in Ronda in a rather beautiful ex-church in part of what is now a conference centre....

You can see a couple of scenes of the recent Wine Creators conference in Ronda here in inside information, with two more to follow tomorrow. But what a fuss there has been on decanter.com and...

Last weekend the long anticipated Wine Creators conference took place in the spectacular Andalucian town of Ronda. I’ll report in detail next Saturday in the Financial Times and here in...

As I mentioned here , I had the great pleasure of touring bodegas in southern Spain with Jesús Barquin and David Schildknecht, who writes for Robert Parker about Burgundy, the Rhone, the...

Last week I spent a couple of days renewing my acquaintance with Jerez and visiting Montilla for the first time prior to the Wine Creators event in Ronda , on which I will be reporting a week on...

Those who travel in Germany and Austria know perfectly well how many fine red wines are now made and sold in those countries, but many wine lovers elsewhere are still unaware of the red wine...

This is the start of a new series – sets of tasting notes painstakingly transcribed by a wine-loving genius cryptographer. They were originally scrawled in one of the little notebooks I...

Several of you have asked for more details about a public symposium  being held on 18 and 19 April in Ronda, southern Spain which has been advertised in the press recently.  ...