Angelo Gaja speaks his mind, as you will see if you search on his name on this site or click on the Gaja tag below. This recent article , for example, spawned a long discussion on our Members'...

The commune of Barbaresco, which was the focus of day one and much of the morning of day two of the four-day Nebbiolo Prima tastings in Piemonte has traditionally been described as more...

As promised on the forum (initially in this thread ) here are my notes from a blind tasting of Piemontese reds for British Airways. We will be publishing more notes specifically on 2004...

I have had a particularly voluble response to my report last Saturday on wine in China (which will be supplemented by a more colourful, less businessy piece in a few weeks' time). It was mostly...

The 1997 vintage was exceptional in Piemonte: famously ripe to overripe. It is clear from tasting all these wines that different producers have extremely different ideas about how such grapes...

Coonawarra with its supposedly distinctive terra rossa soil is Australia's earliest claimant to appellation status and, according to its growers, 'Australia's leading wine district'. However the...

It is a regrettable fact that, despite Walter Speller's best efforts to inform and educate the British visitors to this website, in the UK most of us are pitifully ignorant about Italian...

The afternoons during Nebbiolo Prima, after the the blind tastings held in the mornings (see Nebbiolo week - a guide for links to all the tasting notes and related articles), are reserved for...

Last May when I visited the Langhe to taste more than 200 embryonic Barolo and Barbaresco wines in this year's en primeur Nebbiolo Prima tastings , it struck me that such density of vine...

Any European wine region that reports a perfect vintage will certainly be exceptional this year. There's been an awful lot of weather about, but little of it of positive benefit to the vine. In...