Longstanding visitors to this site will know of my campaign against unnecessarily heavy bottles . I'm pleased that there is now much more awareness of the environmental cost of producing...

Readers may remember how only last year I raved about the Faro wines of two producers, Bonavita and Salvatore's Geraci's Palari estate . Faro is a tiny DOC perched on the windy hills at the...

In your much-appreciated response to our recent survey , many of you said you'd like more coverage of less expensive wines. So here is a collection of tasting notes on more than 200 wines...

We asked Ferran Centelles , our new Spanish specialist, to begin by surveying the state of wine in Spain today. Twenty years ago Spanish people used to drink an average of 32 litres...

' Serve them good wine, they will make good laws',  said Michel de Montaigne, one of the most popular philosophers in the world and former mayor of Bordeaux. This sentence should...

In Vintners' Hall in London last night, at a dinner for the great and good of the international wine trade, I had the great pleasure of proposing the health of the Vintners' Company on its 650th...

Jancis writes: Our German specialist Michael Schmidt tasted widely at the VDP's Weinbörse, its first showcase of 2012s, in Mainz at the end of last month, an experience he describes in Mosel...

Wine professionals in London have a choice of two wine fairs to visit today: the first day of the London International Wine Fair at Excel exhibition centre in London's Docklands (on a Monday...

Michael Schmelzer of Monte Bernardi in Panzano reports on the last two vintages in Chianti Classico - and gives his verdict on the latest naming proposals there. Very early on,...

Every year, I use London's extremely useful  Big Fortified Tasting to teach myself a lesson. In 2011 and 2012, the lessons were concerned with passing the MW practical examination. In 2013,...

Wine is one of the most sensitive measures of climate change. A rise in temperature during the growing season can easily result - indeed has resulted - in riper grapes and fuller-bodied wines....

I have never yet devoted this column to a restaurant I have not previously eaten in. But such is my enthusiasm for the aspirations that lie behind Gustu in La Paz, Bolivia, which opened on 18...

As a Purple Pager, you have the chance to win a pair of tickets to UK wine merchant Bibendum's big tasting of 2012 bordeaux at Lord's Cricket Ground, London NW1,  on 5 June 2013.  Once...

Last February I was invited to an intriguing comparative tasting of Mommessin's Clos de Tart v Giacomo Conterno's Barolo Monfortino. Intriguing because, on the face of it, the wines have...

From €6.99, 9 Swiss francs, $10.99, Ca$13.95, £7.95, 99 Swedish krone, etc Find this wine This is a funny one. Although I am delightedly aware of some exceptional...