Bill Blatch runs Bordeaux negociant Vintex and is one of the members of the Bordeaux wine trade who is most fascinated by how wines actually taste. For some years he is widely acknowledged...

Bill Blatch runs Bordeaux négociant Vintex and is one of the members of the Bordeaux wine trade who is most fascinated by how wines actually taste. For some years he has been widely...

UK importer Liberty Wines, founded by Italian specialist David Gleave MW in 1997 and winner of the International Wine Challenge's Italian Specialist Merchant award in nine out of the last 11...

In this short film, new, small, upmarket négociant Olivier Bernstein discusses how 2008 and 2009 compare with each other and with previous vintages.  You can read more about Bernstein in...

Klaus Peter Keller of Weingut Keller in Rheinhessen sends this happy and satisified report on his year in the vineyar and the results in the cellar. Low yields, exciting wines...

Victor de la Serna, deputy editor of the Spanish daily El Mundo , eminent wine writer and now wine producer at Finca Sandoval in Manchuela, kicks off our report on the 2009 harvest in Spain. His...

So how was vintage 2009 in the burgeoning vineyards of England? Plumpton College, the academic outfit with its own vineyards profiled here , sends a fully illustrated report. (Thanks to...

Graham Nutter of Ch St-Jacques d'Albas in Laure Minervois (pictured here) reports on his experience of the 2009 growing season and harvest in Minervois. For other Languedoc harvest reports,...

Thanksgiving Day, and it seems that the 2009 harvest has been particularly kind to us wine lovers, especially those of us in northern Europe. I took a bit of a risk writing a story for...

Charles and Philippa Sydney, courtiers en vins de Loire based in Chinon, sent this enthusiastic preliminary report, written mid Nov. All photos courtesy of Charles. Although it's still a...

The Oregon Wine Board provided this detailed 2009 harvest report earlier this month. The growing-season weather round-up is followed by comments from producers in each of the main regions....

As I reported here , in a 24-hour period in mid October, between 2 and 10 inches (5–25 cm) of rain fell in central and northern California vineyards, and it continued to rain, lightly, for four...

Michael Schmidt, who last month gave us an excellent and detailed account of the 2008 and 2007 Grosse Gewächse German wines, sends this round-up of confident reactions in Germany to the...

Michael Schmidt will be giving us his detailed report on the 2009 vintage tomorrow, and we have had some early comments from Klaus Peter Keller (end Sep - when this photo of some of his Pinot...

This is the second half of wine writer Stuart Pigott's account of making his own wine. See also Part 1 . This very long account is entitled 'The mad harvest, wild fermentation and more IRP'....