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...

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...

Wine writer Monty Waldin, quite coincidentally producer of this week’s wine of the week , has been visiting the troubled Montalcino zone on a regular basis since 2004. Over the last...

Victoria Daskal pauses on her round-the-world trip as part of the OIV’s Master of Science in Wine Management to interview Mimi Gatens, director of sustainability at Benziger Family...

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. I have long suspected that this is merely an excuse to eat more pudding. Pudding aside, some things remain notoriously hard to prove. The...

The moon is credited with influencing many things. Werewolves, for instance, which like all forms of inter-species transmogrification is rather inconvenient for sufferers of lycanthropy, but...

Find The Hedonist I may well lead a sheltered life but this is the first wine I have ever seen so obviously labelled ‘biodynamic’ . That’s in big...

In terms of fine wine, the year just ending looks eerily similar to 1997. It may well prove to be more famous for its dramatic price rises than for the vintage itself.   Wine...

Austria has the highest percentage of organic agriculture in Europe: already 30% of the total, and 4.2% of viticulture (with a significant number of producers in the process of transition to...

Editor:   Jancis Robinson OBE, MW, D Univ   Assistant Editor :   Julia Harding MW   Viticulture Editor:   Dr Richard E....

  Julia Harding MW and I have tasted a total approaching 1,500 different samples of 2005 burgundy – mainly in London last week but I also spent a week in Burgundy in December tasting...

  People like Dominique Lafon, Christophe Roumier and Jean-Marie Fourrier are thoroughly normal, 21 st century young(ish) men. They travel the world and have friends all over the place....

Paul Howard of www.winealchemy.com has submitted the following report on a recent tasting of some particularly intriguing wines.   Frédéric Grappe of Dynamic...

The following unique opportunity to assess one of Burgundy’s rarest white Grands Crus took place at De Hoefslag hotel and restaurant near Utrecht in Holland on Nov 19 and was organised...

Neville Blech, Bacchus & Comus, London SW7:   I would be curious to know whether you or any other Purple Pagers have ever had a TRULY GREAT organic wine?  I have...