I’m now back home after a week’s immersion in 2007s in Burgundy and then Châteauneuf-du-Pape with hundreds of tasting notes – a very high proportion of them favourable. Needless...

Those of you who have followed this website from its tentative first steps in late 2000 and have memorised every word (can such a person exist) may well be aware of milk thistle already. This...

One of the most common requests I have received by those who had enough free time to sit through my 30 minute conversation with Charlie Rose on American tv last month is "What was...

The main talking point of yesterday’s big tasting at Justerini & Brooks was the state of the samples. Hew Blair of J&B confesses to worrying over Christmas and New Year (he is a...

Albert Liu, Hong Kong:   I read your article Milk thistle - the drinker's friend and just wondered which product you use. Can you recommend one for me. Thanks...

Luiz Horta, São Paulo:   This is the Mistral Wine Experience week here, almost 80 producers this year. From Spain René Barbier (who came himself) with Clos...

So, Julia and I are just off to Bordeaux, armed with milk thistle, Recaldent and a truly terrifying schedule because it seems that this year it should be worth tasting very widely indeed –...

John Hicke, Canada: Wanted to pass along this (upbeat) article in the Village Voice for those still interested in milk thistle to stave off the dreaded morning after......

Steve Dutton, Germany: More bad news for those suffering hangover blues. Here is a link to a timely, if rather mean-spirited article in  New Scientist . It basically puts the nail in...

Although I’m absolutely the wrong nationality to participate fully in this week's feast(s) of Thanksgiving, I do still give heartfelt thanks for: -being married to a restaurant...

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If you're interested enough in wine to be visiting this site, let me encourage you to widen your horizons to wines that are neither dry white not dry red - if you're not already in the habit...

Sorry if this is less than crystal clear but I've still got eight 1989 red bordeaux sloshing round my system from last night's annual first growth dinner. (No complaints, please. Someone's got to...

Being described in a glowing Washington Post review of the World Atlas of Wine as 'undoubtedly the cheekiest wine writer on the current scene' is still something of which I'm most...