Here's a scene from my recent visit to Clos des Papes which should set the heart of  any lover of Rhône wines racing. You will see on the right, the gentleman in the flat cap that...

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From €6.95 and £6.99. Find this wine After tasting so many great 2007 Rhônes recently (see yesterday's report on last week’s tastings in eastern France),...

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...

Every year I try to assemble a collection of wines for Financial Times readers that I think should be drinking particularly well for celebrations over the year end. There is a horrible shortage...

Believe it or not, the wine range at the decidedly downmarket ASDA supermarket chain, now owned by Walmart, has been revitalised by a Francophile Master of Wine. Philippa Carr MW admits that she...

An ambitious tasting of Italian Rieslings held in Alto Adige on 8 Nov showed that Italy needs to focus on terroir if it wants to pick up the German gauntlet. This annual competition...

I tasted these 50 red Rhône wines back in May for British Airways business class. There is nothing sinister in the long delay between tasting and publishing – just a build-up of so many...

The following tasting notes are compiled from several different tastings held in London in September and October by various importers and merchants. They are organised by style, then...

Just a few quick observations between tastings - many of them of a range of 2007 Rhônes. The north seems very much more varied than the south, with an almost mind-boggling array of...

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...

From £6.83, €10, Can$19.99 and $22.25 Find this wine I’m highlighting this hugely appealing, well-distributed southern Rhône red because, of use to many British wine...

Here's what the Jaboulet team we saw here yesterday talking about the exceptionally wet 2008 vintage have to say about 2007 in the northen Rhône, and about what might happen to prices....

Yesterday I went to a most enjoyable tasting of mainly cask samples from the new regime at Jaboulet organised by UK importers Liberty Wine at Theo Randall's restaurant in London's Intercontinental...

As a recent newcomer to London, one of my favourite weekend quests involves finding local wine retailers with interesting selections and decent prices. Not exactly a mission...