London wine merchant Swig , who sell 'artisan wines from around the world', has invited purple pagers to a walk-around tasting of '30 very special Italian wines' selected from the Best 100 Wines...

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...

New legislative proposals will dilute Prosecco still further. The Consorzio Tutela del Vino Prosecco DOC di Conegliano (pictured) e Valdobbiadene, the association of Prosecco producers from the...

Both Valpolicella and Soave have an image problem not unlike that of Liebfraumilch. Too many weedy, cheap examples have undermined the reputation of these wines in the eyes of many wine...

In a nutshell: Lots of commercial Soave and Valpolicella, centre of dried-grape wine production. Main grapes: Corvina, Molinara, Rondinella (red); Garganega, Trebbiano di Soave,...

In a nutshell: Pure, aromatic varietals. Main grapes: All the universals plus Friulano, Picolit, Ribolla, Verduzzo (white); and Refosco (red). Friuli, or Friuli-Venezia...

In a nutshell: Italy's dynamic wine powerhouse. Main grapes: Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon (red); Trebbiano (white). It may seem logically and geographically absurd to...

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...

Marks & Spencer has been one of Britain’s totemic retailers, a relatively upmarket operation that for at least a generation had a stranglehold, if that is not an inappropriate term, on...

Melanie Jones runs quaffersoffers.co.uk and is about to take the Master of Wine exam. She has also been very helpful on this site, transcribing tasting notes and transferring them into the...

Find the 2006 Soave I recently tasted about 60 of the wines UK retailers Majestic are currently most proud of and this was one of six wines that really stood out for...

Wine label printers have much to thank the Hungarians for.   From the beginning of this year the name Tocai Friulano is officially banned from wine labels exported from Italy,...

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Federico Vincenzi kindly sends us this analysis of the Italian wines most garlanded in the following guides: -          ...

See also members' forum .   Gianfranco Soldera and his daughter Monica came to the UK recently under the auspices of Zubair Mohamed of Raeburn Fine Wines in Edinburgh who...