Never let it be said that I ignore the wishes of purple pagers. Three months ago Mark Prust of Wales asked here on the old forum why there weren't more tasting notes on Alsace wines. Voila!...

The world's wine producers spend a lot of time asking themselves and each other how to persuade more people to drink wine. And yet they continue to sell the vast majority of their production in...

My flight from London to San Francisco last week was punctuated by an overnight stay in the handsome town of Denver. Barely 90 minutes after touching down I was on my way to a tasting of...

See also our German 2007 tasting notes - A-K   Below is the second half of our roughly 450 tasting notes on Germany’s attractive and useful 2007 vintage. Where both Julia...

As promised on the forum (initially in this thread ) here are my notes from a blind tasting of Piemontese reds for British Airways. We will be publishing more notes specifically on 2004...

  A recent tasting in London of self-professed Argentine ‘super reserves’ was quite patchy and revealed one of the downsides of a generic representative body such as Wines...

Below are my notes on 66 wines shown in London recently, supposedly because they were all given either 5 or 4.5 stars in the 2008 Platter Guide (although in the event the UK importers...

Read this in conjunction with my overview of the current Slovenian wine scene. The following is a collection of tasting notes on 156 Slovenian wines taken mainly in Slovenia...

Filipe da Mota Neves worked for the Portuguese trade office in London promoting Portuguese wines and ports very successfully (as I observed in Portugal – how to convince the rest of the...

See the resulting thread on members' forum . I have no axe to grind either pro or anti natural cork or screwcap but I thought you might be interested in this interview last week with...

We all know that French wine producers have been having a tough time and have been sorely in need of a bit of help in actively selling their products in a world awash with cleverly marketed New...

See our tasting notes on 2005 St-Emilions.   Julia and I each did a day at last week’s two-day tasting of 2005 St-Emilions at Decanter magazine and even if Julia's day on...

I was discussing the issues involved in water use by wine producers by email with David Graves of Saintsbury winery in California recently and he was kind enough to send this overview: Water...

In the 1990s I went to take a look at Amorim in Portugal, the world’s pre-eminent cork supplier. On the way to one of their cork processing plants my host anxiously discussed the weather...

Ex Wine Spectator editor Jim Gordon asks in a recent report on a symposium on bottle stoppers at Copia in Napa Valley, Has the Anti-Cork Tide Turned?   In view of the recent (if...