From €12.30, £15.95, $24, 189 Swedish krone, 180 Danish krone, 3,560 yen Find this wine This week has been unusually low on French wine recommendations but here is a...

Today Walter moves on from Chianti Classico and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano to Montalcino. See What's new, Montalcino? for the background to this collection of Brunello di...

Every November, just before the official welcome ceremony at Vintners' Hall for new Masters of Wine, the tasting committee of the Institute of MWs organises a tasting of leading red bordeaux from...

11 Feb - For a useful overview of the value offered by the 2008 vintage, stylistic evolution on the right bank, and how a new classification will be achieved, see this from...

From €13, £17.25 Find this wine I first enjoyed this wine in the fashionable new brasserie Thoumieux in Paris over dinner with Tim 'Juveniles' Johnston and his wife Stephanie. (See...

From £9.95, $17.50, 31 Swiss francs Find this wine   Here’s a cracker, a wine that puts many more expensive bottles in the shade. It’s basically a Côtes du...

Sadly for Jancis, happily for me, Jancis was not able to go to the new-release tasting of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti's 2007s chez London agent Corney & Barrow because of a prior commitment...

You may remember that I was recently treated to an audience with France’s Minister of Agriculture , together with Bernard Farges, the man charged with looking after the fortunes of those...

As you can see from the picture, Julia and I devoted most of last Tuesday to tasting our way round the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux's annual London showing of their latest vintage to go into...

Andy Sparrow of Bibendum Wine alerted me to the fact that this picture (note the Samsung netbook with new, improved battery life) of me hard at work at Tuesday's presentation of the 2007 Bordeaux...

I recently had the chance to complete my acquaintance with 2007 white burgundies from the prolific Vincent Girardin of Meursault. Both in the notes in Burgundy 2007 tasting notes - E-H and in...

From £4.24 and 950 yen. For Bastille Day, a French wine of course. Those who have followed my raves about Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2007 and the southern Rhône generally in this obligingly...

The Bordelais put on a great show of their 2007 dry white wines in London last October. This was much appreciated, but somehow November didn't seem the most appropriate time to publish more than...

£5.49; even fewer euros   Yesterday on purple pages I published my tasting notes on about 80 wines I tasted recently from the range of UK supermarket Sainsbury’s, and a generally...

Last week's London tasting of the newly released crop of vintage ports, the 2007s, was held in a sort of transitional passageway at The Foreign Press Association in Carlton House Terrace. The...