Hong Kong wine merchant and restaurateur Paulo Pong, founder of Altaya Wines, is determined to continue the tradition begun by Edmund Penning Rowsell, my predecessor as Financial Times wine...

For the third time, fine-wine traders Bordeaux Index held a Ten Years On tasting of top red bordeaux earlier this month. Alas the 2002s did not provide the pleasure that both the 2001s and the...

See my tasting notes on almost 120 bordeaux 2002s . On the face of it, the 2002 vintage of red bordeaux looks a rather attractive prospect. The wines were never going to be...

See my overview of this fascinating tasting of nearly 120 red bordeaux from the 2002 vintage, including pointers to the  wines that seem the best buys. You can see a short video of the...

Here's a look at how I spent most of Friday (before falling asleep on a train to Cumbria). Seventeen of us gathered in the tasting room at Farr Vintners in Battersea, south London, to taste almost...

Grenache is an unlikely hero of a grape. Reviled or at best ignored in much of the world, it is the grape chiefly responsible for two of the great, and increasingly celebrated, red wines of the...

See also a new set of notes added to More German 2007s today. Because of the discussion on this thread of the members’ forum, I tasted two newly released 2002 champagnes to...

It was fascinating to taste such a wide range of 2002 red bordeaux so soon after looking at so many of the same 2004s about which I was enthusiastic. (See overview and tasting notes on...

For detailed tasting notes and scores on more than 150 2002 bordeaux retasted in bottle , see purple pages.   One of the questions I am most frequently asked about...

Despite their late beginnings, both in the vineyard and cellar, Bordeaux’s 2002s are all, except for a handful of grand Sauternes, in bottle and can be judged in a less embryonic state...

Dave Armstrong, Tokyo: I'm about to make a significant (for me)...

Alan Robinson, England: Re your tasting notes on 2001...

lan Robinson, England: I quote from JMQ Weekly, July 2003. "..this wine surprised me with its fat and...

Jim Dove, USA: Jancis, I bought 2002 futures (in honour of my youngest daughter's birth year)...

Jadot has long been one of the most reliable names in Burgundy, one of the few negociants to have a reputation for quality, especially in reds, that goes back years and years and years, largely...