While their bigger and more downmarket rivals offer increasingly cut-throat deals on wine (three bottles for £10 or even £9) to lure customers into their stores to buy food etc, Waitrose has...

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 $4.99 and £7. Find this wine Have I gone mad? Choosing a California Chardonnay made by the world’s biggest wine company that can be found in the US for as little as $4.99...

In a nutshell : Cool. Main grapes : Pinot Noir (red); Chardonnay, Riesling (white). Wine production on Tasmania has always been small, but its potential is now being realised....

This north-eastern state has twice as much land devoted to vines as Tasmania but usually produces only half as much wine, thanks largely to its low annual rainfall. Its wine industry is...

List of maps by country France Burgundy Côte d’Or: The Quality Factor Beaune town plan Côte de Beaune: Santenay Côte de Beaune: Meursault Côte de Beaune:...

Please note that italics refer to grape varieties that have their own entries in this guide to hundreds of the most significant grapes currently grown around the world to produce white...

If Pinot Noir is the world's most tantalising grape, Nebbiolo runs it a close second - for very similar reasons. While the red burgundy grape has been extremely unwilling to travel happily from its...

A significant proportion of those who choose to devote much of their lives to wine were inspired to do so by a single wine and in my experience that wine is most likely to have been a red burgundy,...

I tasted these 64 Australian white wines blind last March when they had been submitted as candidates for British Airways first class cabin. It was not long after the white burgundy tasting for...

Lisa Shara Hall, based in Oregon, is senior editor of Wine Business Monthly , author of Wines of the Pacific Northwest , and a longstanding Riesling lover. I love...

In this series of tasting notes on the range of wines currently offered by  significant British retailers, we have only Oddbins' summer selection and a range of Tesco's Finest left to go....

I sat with two Australian winemakers in Rowley Leigh’s Café Anglais last week cursing Bridget Jones. Phil Sexton, Steve Flamsteed and I, plus 14 bottles of wine, had met up to...

As reported in  Australia changes its focus , the Australian wine industry is keenly aware that it needs to brush up its image. With this in mind, and after much brainstorming,...

Summary A very small harvest, marked by extreme weather conditions from drought and bushfire to frost and hail, with red grapes most severely affected. In Western Australia a...