Charles (left, clearly enjoying the harvest) and Philippa Sydney, wine brokers in the Loire Valley with a passion for the region and extreme determination to support its wine growers, have sent...

European vintage reports are now flooding in thick and fast. The following account of the Loire Valley's prospects for 2011 comes from Charles Sydney, who runs a courtier business there with...

Last week Muscadet gave birth to three new crus: Clisson, Le Pallet and Gorges. These crus communaux have been created ‘to push Muscadet wines up-market, in an effort to establish a centre of...

It's early days yet, and when it comes to capricious Mother Nature nothing can be predicted, but as the first European pre-harvest reports start trickling in, and we hear of red grapes being...