Mel Jones, currently working on her Master of Wine dissertation, gives us her impressions of 54 of the wines from the main range that Britain’s Majestic chose to show off to the press this...

The reason I made my very first trip to Australia and was able to write my recent report on the Limestone Coast and its challenges was to act as the overseas judge in the recent  Limestone...

“Who will buy my sweet red grapes?”, as the rose seller in the musical version of Oliver Twist   nearly said. This is becoming a serious concern not just for Australia’s...

I hear it was snowing in London last week. Well it wasn’t a great deal warmer in Sydney the week before that on my first-ever trip to Australia. In fact, it was the coldest October day for 30...

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...

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...

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...

The pleasure of being back in Ballymaloe House, 30 miles south-east of Cork in southern Ireland, after 27 years was accentuated when Darina Allen pointed to my place at the dinner table and said,...

Just as the Australian wine industry battles to demonstrate that it can do more than churn out inexpensive, technically perfect, fast-fade Shiraz and Chardonnay from its rapidly dessicating...

These are the notes from an amazing recent tasting organised in London by MARC Fine Wines of a range of 22 top vintages of Penfolds Grange back to the legendary 1955. See Putting Grange back on...

Melbourne-based wine writer Max Allen was in the UK this week to a) help his mother pack up prior to a move to Australia and b) conduct a seminar on the increasing popularity and quality of his...

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...

It is difficult to exaggerate how much Argentine wines have changed in the last few years. But perhaps that is not so surprising considering that the world’s fifth most important wine producer...

The Giaconda Dining Room opened four months ago just off Charing Cross Road in London’s so-called Tin Pan Alley, Denmark Street, just opposite one of its music shops. What makes it so...

Last night Hugh Johnson and I launched Hallwag's German edition of the latest, 6th edition of the World Atlas of Wine in Munich’s Literaturhaus, a sort of literary restaurant in one of...