If everyone in Champagne used Pierre-Eric Jolly's three-legged, single-wired muselet , over 1,000 km of wire could be saved (based on their own saving of 4 km of wire in three months, tracked on...

In a terse press release at the end of last week, the French Ministries for Ecology and Culture announced that the two French wine regions that had been shortlisted for UNESCO's World...

To celebrate their record champagne sales this year, London fine-wine traders Bordeaux Index held a tasting of some of the most famous champagnes of all from the magnificent 2002 vintage....

I love my tasting sessions three or four times a year in the bowels of Windsor Castle or Buckingham Palace as part of my duties as non-merchant member of the Royal Household Wine Committee...

This correspondence is self explanatory, and possibly not unusual.  Early July 2012    To Holland America Line [whose tagline is 'A Signature of Excellence' - JR]...

I heard twice, now three times, from award-winning Cornish winemaker Bob Lindo of Camel Valley today. His first despatch was to trumpet the fact that his son Sam had just won a Double Gold, six...

We’re great admirers of grower champagnes here, Jancis having written about them a number of times, including Growers' champagnes from Son of Sampler and Great growers' champagnes . So I...

Over breakfast at Maialino during my recent stay in New York described in Young Americans, bless them , I quizzed the man responsible for Dom Pérignon, Richard Geoffroy, about the challenging...

Pink champagne, once dismissed as a frivolous irrelevance, is now being taken seriously. So seriously that it is creating major headaches for producers in France's Champagne region thanks to...

The short film below sets the vertiginous scene for an extraordinary tasting of a dozen vintages of Bollinger RD in Paris last Friday.  For an account and my tasting notes, see A half...

I've come across a really excellent, attractive, up-to-the-minute guide to the champagnes currently on the market. You might assume it would be written by one of the accredited champagne...

I realise that we underpriced our Tenth Anniversary Champagne Celebration last December, asking Purple pagers to pay just £40 to our pet charity Room to Read in exchange for a tasting of...

See also Celebrating the first decade - a first report . Who would have guessed that Thursday 2 Dec would turn out to be one of London's coldest and most snow-afflicted ever (see, for...

There seems little doubt that 2002 is an exceptional vintage for champagne. You can find six champagnes based on the well-favoured, intense yet well-balanced 2002 vintage in my selection of 40+...

In 2006 the first branch of The Sampler wine shop in Islington broke new ground in wine retailing for London, offering its customers small tasting samples of about 80 fine wines and carrying a...