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...

The Union des Grands Crus have been travelling the world to show off their 2006s now that they are in bottle. Tomorrow I will provide an overview of how they tasted in London recently, both in...

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...

Farr Vintners hosted this great tasting of 22 of the top 2005 red Bordeaux in London at the beginning of this month. A group of 60 tasters, including quite a few producers taking a break from...

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...

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...

Almost all wine-producing countries are making better and better wines every year but I am seriously impressed by how much more refined Argentine wines are today than they were even two or three...

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...

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...

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...