The following tasting notes are compiled from several different tastings held in London in September and October by various importers and merchants. They are organised by style, then...

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....

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...

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...

It will be fascinating to see what sort of prices are fetched by the super-starry lots in two major fine wine sales to be held in Hong Kong this month. The first is to be held on...

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 notes below were taken last week at wine merchants Roberson on Kensington High Street, where a line-up of eight vintages of Château Lynch Bages alongside two of Averous and one of Blanc were...

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...

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...

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...

Yesterday I published my tasting notes on the fizz, whites and pinks shown recently by independent UK retailers Lea & Sandeman. Today it’s the turn of the reds, another largely inspiring...

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...

Following in the wake of Howard Ripley and Café Anglais, whose forthcoming London wine dinners we announced here last week, Berry Bros and Bordeaux Index are also organising some high-flown...

Claude Gros is an unprincipled chameleon. At least that’s how he describes himself, not as a wiry, peripatetic consultant oenologist born in Perpignan 45 years ago and introduced to wine by his...

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...