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....

Here, in some haste but in obedient response to this request on the forum, are the notes I managed to take at London wine merchant Goedhuis’s recent wallow in top quality burgundy. Allen...

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 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...

Two sizeable verticals, one of St-Julien second-growth Ch Léoville Poyferré and one of its sister property Ch Le Crock in St-Estèphe, were tasted in Bordeaux last March with Didier Cuvelier...

I reckoned that the least Richard Hemming deserves after sending us so many entertaining reports from his experiences as a cellar rat in McLaren Vale and as a valiant English vineyard slave is...

A & B Vintners Little Tawsden Spout Lane Brenchley Kent TN12 7AS tel +44 (0)1892 724977 fax +44 (0)1892 722673 info@abvintners.co.uk...

This background article, part of our extensive free Resources section, has been substantially updated from its 2005 original to take account of costs and conditions applicable in Aug 2007 but we...

A British captain of industry and his wife find themselves with a decided superfluity of 2000 red bordeaux and are selling off more than 40,000 bottles (well over 3,000 cases) of it at...

In a nutshell: Mostly bordeaux-like, plus some Basque influence. Main grapes: Cabernets Sauvignon and Franc, Merlot, Malbec, Tannat, Negrette, Fer (red); Sauvignon,...

2006 A coolish summer was followed by an Indian summer punctuated by two bouts of rain but the grapes were healthy enough to withstand them. Promising. 2005 Reduced crop of decent...

2007 Very wet spring but the region had a much drier summer than most of the rest of France. Wines and tannins are very ripe. 2006 Some very lusciously fruited wines that may not...

2007 A dank summer led to rotten Pinot Noir grapes and the need for extremely strict selection. The vintage is unlikely to notch up record scores. 2006 Poor summer with vine health...

2007 Complicated year requiring great precision with both picking schedules and selection. The top properties succeeded yet again. 2006 Not that much botrytis influence....