See also my tasting notes on 169 Alsace 2007s. It is perhaps not surprising that French wine producers have been much slower to embrace screwcaps as an alternative stopper to natural...

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In a nutshell : Right climate, lots of vines. Main grapes : International mix. The independent state of Moldova is so far the only former Soviet republic to have established...

  Find this wine It’s high time serious Beaujolais featured in this slot; I don’t think, to my shame, I have ever chosen one as my wine of the week. The reason is...

Before wrestling with the cork or other stopper , the wine drinker encounters another illogical barrier to wine enjoyment, the often impenetrable foil or capsule that covers the cork. An...

The world's wine producers spend a lot of time asking themselves and each other how to persuade more people to drink wine. And yet they continue to sell the vast majority of their production in...

  Factors affecting wine over time   Once it is firmly stoppered in a bottle, wine should be protected from it greatest enemy, the oxygen in the air. If, however,...

Here are Julia’s tasting notes on the Douro table wines and brand new 2005 vintage ports shown at this launch in London on Tuesday night. They come variously from Niepoort, AXA’s...

House wines used to be the most disappointing aspect of any visit to any restaurant. Often thin and acidic, a house wine’s only saving grace – at least until the following morning...

In answer to my article about wine shipping temperatures , our old friend David Schildknecht, who until recently was a wine importer in Ohio, sends the following very personal and practical...

See also Schildknecht on reefer madness for an ex-importer's view. Last summer a thousand cases of very fine wine indeed had to be poured straight down San Francisco’s...

Filipe da Mota Neves worked for the Portuguese trade office in London promoting Portuguese wines and ports very successfully (as I observed in Portugal – how to convince the rest of the...

We all know that French wine producers have been having a tough time and have been sorely in need of a bit of help in actively selling their products in a world awash with cleverly marketed New...

  As I explained here , we celebrated the start of the New Year on Jan 1 rather than Dec 31 with a dinner in which arguably the food rather than the wine was the star.  ...

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...