See related thread in Members' forum   In this collection of 77 wines offered this autumn by Sainsbury’s, one of Britain’s biggest supermarket chains locked in mortal combat with the...

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...

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...

I tasted these 64 Australian white wines blind last March when they had been submitted as candidates for British Airways first class cabin. It was not long after the white burgundy tasting for...

I had the opportunity to sip Randall Grahm’s single-vineyard Pacific Rim Rieslings from Washington state while thumbing through his very useful (and free) booklet, Riesling Rules ....

Here’s a supplement to our already extensive coverage of Germany’s delicious 2007s, wines from J Koegler and Robert Weil in the Rheingau and the exciting wines of Sybille Kuntz...

Find this wine     Full-bodied, oaked, perfumed whites from Portugal are not ten a penny. The highly unusual Esporão Reserva Branco 2007 Alentejo tastes more like a...

After all these years I have become relatively inured to the distracting lure of tasting notes. I can usually read through hundreds quite clinically, without being tempted to go and rip open a...

I sat with two Australian winemakers in Rowley Leigh’s Café Anglais last week cursing Bridget Jones. Phil Sexton, Steve Flamsteed and I, plus 14 bottles of wine, had met up to...

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...

Here is a modest assemblage of a few wines tasted recently that made a particularly strong impression for one reason or another.   At dinner on Easter Sunday we served four 1983 red...

We are way down in the bargain basement this week with a really stunning house white. I tasted 85 of the wines of which Britain’s dominant retailer is most proud last week (see my full...

See also my overview Australia changes its focus , Australian Rieslings and Australian Semillons . Below are tasting notes on about 250 mostly really interesting...

One of the many legacies of Australia’s Mr Wine Len Evans (see articles below) is the annual Len Evans Tutorial Scholarship, a wine tasting workshop for some of Australia’s...

In the 1990s I went to take a look at Amorim in Portugal, the world’s pre-eminent cork supplier. On the way to one of their cork processing plants my host anxiously discussed the weather...