Here are notes on a handful of current releases tasted last month from a most interesting Georgian winery, Pheasant's Tears, run by American artist Jonathan Wurdeman, whose story was outlined in...

Umay Çeviker, the Turkish architect I met on our visit to Turkey last May, told me that he made frequent trips to Georgia and had a particular interest in Georgian wine. (He also told me...

When I first encountered it, I remember thinking Australian Shiraz/Viognier was the weirdest thing I had ever heard of. At the tasting I report on below, it looked like one of the most orthodox...

Georgia has one of the world's oldest and most vibrant wine cultures. She can and frequently does lay claim to being the birthplace of viticulture and attributes the longevity of many Georgians to...

In the wake of Bisso’s recent update on wine in Russia , Joachim Binz of Wineconsale GmbH based in Wiesbaden, Germany, sends this update on the current state of the Georgian wine market....

Find this wine Anyone who watched Hugh Johnson's television series on the history of wine back in the late 1980s will know what a special place Georgia (Black...

Georgia has a fair claim to be the cradle of viticulture and continues to make a very high proportion of its wine along lines which could be described as prototype natural (see the bottom of this...

I first met Jonathan Wurdeman less than two years ago. I had made frequent business trips to Georgia for almost three years back then but he did not seem to belong to any group of people I met in...

I am keenly aware that, despite our West Coast editor Linda Murphy's best efforts, our coverage of American wines is woefully spotty. This is mainly because here in the UK we see a relatively...

The recently established Georgian Wine Society is offering what they describe as the gift 'for the wine lover who has everything' or ' a more original way of getting involved with Georgian...

Since I wrote so extensively about Russian wine recently, it seems only fair to give a bit of space (not nearly enough, admittedly) to the wine made in the spectacular scenery of its adversary...

Bisso, Simple Wine Co, Moscow : Re The New Russian effect on wine - Though I am not Russian by birth, but I play for "team Russia " here, so I have to comment....

The Marchese de’ Frescobaldi, prominent Florentine noblemen since the 13 th century, have turned to perhaps the most obvious source of new money for help in maintaining their recent fine wine...

DRY RIESLINGS Dr 'L' Riesling QbA 2002 , Dr Loosen (Mosel) 14 Drink 2003-2004 £5.99 Sainsbury, Oddbins Very, very pale. Water white. Light nose, then pure Riesling...