Every year, Spanish wine writer José Peñîn and his team taste more than 8,000 wines to produce their annual wine guide, the Guia Peñín . For the second year running, I went to Madrid to...

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...

I can still remember where, when and why I walked into my first tapas bar. It was one early Sunday evening in the spring of 1978 in the old town of Bilbao in northern Spain to which I had...

The following selection of notes are the highlights of the Christmas list of the Wine Society, the British institution that is a mail order wine retailer owned by its members. It’s a condensed...

From £5.99 and $10. Find this wine This was by a mile the best value wine at a recent tasting of the revitalised Odd bins’ new range – I actually wrote that it was too...

Dodie Miller has been the attractive and passionate conduit for distributing the most authentic Mexican ingredients to both professional and amateur chefs across the UK for the past 15 years....

From £15.99 and 16.38 euros. Find Bassus Pinot Noir For various reasons I have found myself lecturing on the subject of Pinot Noir recently. (Perhaps partly because post-...

First an apology to the many visitors here who do not live in the UK and are therefore not within reach of a branch of our most famous retailer (especially of underwear - hence the image, not...

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...

 See related thread in Members' forum  What is dark, sticky, transforms plain vanilla ice cream into a feast and can cost as little as £6.40 per half-litre? The answer is a varietal...

As we left Agapé, which opened earlier this year in Paris’s chic 17th arrondissement, I congratulated Laurent Lapaire, its maitre d’ and co-owner, on what had been an excellent dinner. As I...

From £10.95 and $30. Find this wine . This is one of the most impressive and enjoyable Carmenères I have tasted for a very long time. It’s in De Martino’s single vineyard...

The following comments were made before our transformation into a much more sophisticated format. WHAT MEMBERS SAY ABOUT PURPLE PAGES “ There is a personal warmth that...

German labels are some of the world's most confusing. Quite apart from the usual advice that producer is crucial and vintage year can affect quality, look for 1 quality level, 2 grape...

Claude Gros is an unprincipled chameleon. At least that’s how he describes himself, not as a wiry, peripatetic consultant oenologist born in Perpignan 45 years ago and introduced to wine by his...