This year’s Restaurant Show at Earl’s Court in London contained one unexpected gem. Past the stands displaying the latest in vast washing up machines, gleaming ovens and software packages to...

For me the sweetest smell in recent memory is that of cheese straws through floorboards. I was in the basement of a house in Islington, North London, one of a dozen tasters rating anonymous...

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...

Silvano Giraldin has finally hung up his order pad and pen. After 37 years initially alongside Albert Roux and then his son Michel, Giraldin, who has been General Manager and Director of Le...

Jancis on her life in wine... After a virtually wine-free childhood and teenage years in a village of 46 people in...

As the sommelier and beverage manager for the Culinary Institute of America in St Helena, California, housed in the Greystone building pictured below, Traci Dutton has the enviable yet taxing...

Wine writer Monty Waldin, quite coincidentally producer of this week’s wine of the week , has been visiting the troubled Montalcino zone on a regular basis since 2004. Over the last...

WRONG could hardly be a more unfortunate name for a young organisation, and not one that its members or promoters are likely to use. However, wine producers in northern Greece, large and small,...

By the end of dinner all four of us had managed to leave our hearts at Itinéraires, which opened in April just off the Boulevard St-Germain in Paris’s Latin Quarter, albeit for very...

The judges of the Geoffrey Roberts Award 2008 have just announced that this year they were so impressed by two of the applicants for this annual international travel award that they decided to...

See also 80 current NV champagnes reviewed. At a recent party to celebrate the ‘refreshment’ of the Weekend FT, Bollinger’s first new wine in 30 years was launched....

Yesterday I described Decanter’s dinner for the UK magazine’s Men and Women of the Year with a swoop around the table. Today’s little film is of the very first...

Last night Decanter magazine held a very jolly party to open formally The Decanter Terrace, an extremely windswept locale outside their glamorous new offices on which they have planted a...

Has the magic gone out of wine? This could be said to have been the over-arching theme of a rare two days of discussion between some of the world’s most respected winemakers and wine...

This morning at the Penfolds cellar door at Magill outside Adelaide Australians were able to buy the just-released latest representatives of Penfolds’  ‘luxury and icon...