Tamlyn Currin started doing wine classes with Michael Schmidt about five years ago, and then went down the more conventional route by doing the WSET Intermediate and Advanced in...

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...

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...

This morning I had breakfast in what you can see was a particularly tenebrous restaurant (but aren't they all in New York?) with Gary Vaynerchuk, the young guy from New Jersey who is...

The wines of the Loire Valley have always seemed to Julia and me to attract much less than their fair share of exposure and praise. Julia even made trying to combat this phenomenon the subject of...

Trust England to witness the headline ‘Heavy Rain Brings Flood Warning’ in the same week that the grape harvest begins. At the time of writing, the Gusbourne Estate team is on the brink of...

From £6.75 and $11.75. Find this wine Cinsault is a southern French grape that deserves much more airtime, so congratulations to Berry Bros for showcasing this extremely comely example...

See related thread in Members' forum Didier Dagueneau, the wild boy of Pouilly Fumé, has died at a ridiculously early age, but in what was perhaps a predictable way. Always a fan of...

The following comments were made before our transformation into a much more sophisticated format. WHAT MEMBERS SAY ABOUT PURPLE PAGES “ There is a personal warmth that...

I’m so glad that I ventured into cyberspace as long ago as 2000 and have long been puzzled by how few of my British wine writing colleagues have followed suit. Now comes news that five of them...

Colmar in landlocked Alsace in the east of France seemed the ideal location to put to rest one of the longest running myths in the restaurant world: that one should avoid ordering fish in a...

In a nutshell: Export-driven industry making waves and fruit-driven wines, all over the world. Main grapes : Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon (red); Chardonnay, Semillon, Riesling...

This week at the vineyard, the work was exactly the same as last week. To wit: tying young vines on to stakes. It’s about as mundane as it sounds and funnily enough, therefore,...

A significant proportion of those who choose to devote much of their lives to wine were inspired to do so by a single wine and in my experience that wine is most likely to have been a red burgundy,...

Michael Oates is reading Chinese at St Anne's, my old Oxford college, although that's not how I know him. It was purple pager Martin Nettleton who knows his uncle and put us together. Michael...