Below are notes on some top-quality wines that are actually ready to drink, and available to British wine lovers by the single bottle – admittedly provided another 11 are bought....

From $16 a bottle. Find this wine I wrote recently in Evening Land – a name to watch about my enthusiasm for this new wine label. It’s an extremely ambitious project based on...

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...

I spent a fascinating afternoon yesterday recording a show for Gary Vaynerchuk’s WineLibrary TV about which one or two purple pagers had grave doubts, as discussed on this thread in the...

To the surprise of no one, except perhaps an egotistical chef or two, Thomas Keller’s The French Laundry in Napa Valley (whose modest Yountville premises are pictured here) is the lone...

Where I live (Sonoma), one must shop long and hard to find a representative sampling of serious South African wines. The cheap and cheerfuls are here, yet the top bottles are difficult to find...

The best known running joke in California wine country is of course: How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Start with a large one. This continues to tell the hard truth of...

List of maps by country France Burgundy Côte d’Or: The Quality Factor Beaune town plan Côte de Beaune: Santenay Côte de Beaune: Meursault Côte de Beaune:...

In a nutshell : Some very fine wine indeed but relatively few bargains. Main grapes : Chardonnay, (French) Colombard, Sauvignon Blanc (white); Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, Merlot...

Please note that italics refer to grape varieties that have their own entries in this guide to hundreds of the most significant grapes currently grown around the world to produce red, and...

Please note that italics refer to grape varieties that have their own entries in this guide to hundreds of the most significant grapes currently grown around the world to produce white...

Chardonnay's a funny grape. It is arguably the most popular in the world, and yet most of those who love it would find it difficult to describe exactly what it tastes of. The truth, I suspect,...

Cabernet Sauvignon may be the world's best-travelled dark-skinned wine grape, but that does not necessarily mean that it makes great wine everywhere. In fact, as time goes on, I become more and...

Continuing our series of detailed grape profiles in  fine wine facts , I present a more up to date survey of a variety whose importance I underrated when I wrote my book Vines, Grapes...

The buzz I hear around town isn’t only about the incredibly early, frost-shrunk 2008 grape crop.   In a move that has been kept very quiet until now, Gallo Family Vineyards...