Every year I try to assemble a collection of wines for Financial Times readers that I think should be drinking particularly well for celebrations over the year end. There is a horrible shortage...

Believe it or not, the wine range at the decidedly downmarket ASDA supermarket chain, now owned by Walmart, has been revitalised by a Francophile Master of Wine. Philippa Carr MW admits that she...

Below are notes on some top-quality wines that are actually ready to drink, and available to British wine lovers by the single bottle – admittedly provided another 11 are bought....

It seems only a moment ago that Tesco, Britain’s dominant supermarket, were moving firmly upmarket with a dramatically increased finer wine range (see Tesco – speccing up a bit? ). And it...

A colleague on the Financial Times recently sent me this query: Can I ask you to settle a mild debate on Champagne with an oenophile friend? He maintains that many bottles carry two...

Those who watched the video interview with the new owner of Oddbins will know that a new broom has been swept very firmly though the wine range here - especially the French range.   This...

Those of us at the outer spokes rather than at the world’s financial hubs are understandably keen to know how the current economic turmoil will affect our particular sphere. Early reports...

See related thread in Members' forum   In this collection of 77 wines offered this autumn by Sainsbury’s, one of Britain’s biggest supermarket chains locked in mortal combat with the...

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...

To celebrate the 10 th anniversary of its premium range of own-label products, Britain’s biggest retailer recently decided to show off its current complete, 85-strong range of Tesco...

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....

Every summer for the last four years a panel of professional tasters in London have worked their way through hundreds of the Spanish wines in commercial circulation in the UK and picked out those...

Australia, then France, are the two countries that send most wine to Britain’s increasingly thirsty wine drinkers but the US looks set to overtake France according to sales figures...

  Below are tasting notes on nearly 80 pink wines in extremely varied styles. Tomorrow I’ll publish an overview of the range of pink wines currently available (you won't be able...

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...