Willi Klinger was Angelo Gaja’s right hand man from 2000 to 2006. Here are his most memorable restaurants in the Langhe region of Piedmont, updates from the previous edition of this list in...

While Nick was in Boston speaking to a group of leading hoteliers, our son suggested we console ourselves at Terroirs, a brand new very wine-minded establishment just opposite Charing Cross, on a...

The reason I made my very first trip to Australia and was able to write my recent report on the Limestone Coast and its challenges was to act as the overseas judge in the recent  Limestone...

Evening Land Vineyards is an exciting and extremely ambitious new project that spans some first class Pinot Noir sites in Oregon and California. The operation, led by former Hollywood...

A few months ago I was introduced to the new wine label, Evening Land Vineyards (see tasting notes and more background here ), which produces some particularly impressive wines from Oregon and...

As a result of my article on tasting and anosmia Take one nose at the weekend I have had quite a bit of correspondence. Several tasters and wine lovers, some quite well known, confess to...

Philip Harper is a great advertisement for the rejuvenating properties of sake. Although now 42, he still looks just like the recent graduate (Oxford, German and English Literature) he was in 1988...

Quantities   A tricky one, this. Individuals' capacity for alcohol varies enormously, as you have doubtless observed yourself. No-one could possibly accuse a host who...

All you need to be a wine taster is a glass and a moment's attention. A lot of unnecessary fuss is made about extraneous smells (taking that argument to its logical conclusion we'd never serve food...

Here's a categorisation of some of the tasting terms I use most commonly for smells and flavours (you may have noticed that I have a somewhat limited wine vocabulary). I've put them into groups...

Last Saturday night Nick and I went to El Bulli in north east Spain to celebrate a 40th birthday - my first trip for quite a few years. I made this little film of us enjoying a most unexpected...

One of the most difficult questions for a wine writer to answer is “which wineries should I visit?” As in so many aspects of our professional lives, we are spoilt. We scarcely notice...

See also my tasting notes on selected pink wines and champagnes. “The world is awash with rosé,” observed an old friend who once managed one of London’s most...

The reason I went to Germany at the end of April (and tasted all those relics described here yesterday) was for the most amazing tasting of 22 great German Rieslings that represented the entire...

I don’t often select a whole category of wine as my wine of the week but I have had such strong positive yet curious feedback as a result of my recent articles urging wine lovers to look...