I have been delightfully catching up on some of the 2007 whites that I have not so far reported on in this extensive survey of German 2007s and Alsace 2007s . I’m particularly glad to...

“Who will buy my sweet red grapes?”, as the rose seller in the musical version of Oliver Twist   nearly said. This is becoming a serious concern not just for Australia’s...

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...

Just a very brief note to say that at long last the Pugibets of Domaine de la Colombette have been allowed by EU authorities to sell their specially reduced alcohol wines, as described here...

These are the notes from an amazing recent tasting organised in London by MARC Fine Wines of a range of 22 top vintages of Penfolds Grange back to the legendary 1955. See Putting Grange back on...

We have great pleasure in publishing a summary of Dutchman Peter Klosse’s revolutionary approach to matching wine and food, based on a new theory of flavour and texture. His work has been...

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...

The rabbit nets that caused me so much unbridled joy in YITV5 made a delightful re-appearance this week, returning to inflict more pain as surely as the masked psychopath returns at the end of...

On 4 Sep – by coincidence, the first day of their harvest in the Douro – Australian-trained Taylor Fladgate Partnership winemaker David Guimaraens gave a tutored tasting of nine Fonseca ports...

From £10.95 and $30. Find this wine . This is one of the most impressive and enjoyable Carmenères I have tasted for a very long time. It’s in De Martino’s single vineyard...

In a nutshell : Vertiginous slopes and fine, racy, underpriced Rieslings at all sweetness levels. Main grape : Riesling (white). The vines which grow on the banks of the Mosel...

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...

Never let it be said that I ignore the wishes of purple pagers. Three months ago Mark Prust of Wales asked here on the old forum why there weren't more tasting notes on Alsace wines. Voila!...