For the last 10 years I have been intimately involved with updating The World Atlas of Wine , a picture-book classic of wine literature that has been a much loved and constantly consulted...

Below are my notes on the wines presented in My most surprising tasting ever . Tasting these wines was a real pleasure, the pleasure of discovery. The film shot by By the Grape's talented...

26 Aug - see new information below. See Going Dutch - the tasting notes . Last Saturday I took part in what was probably the most surprising tasting of my life. Over the last...

See the tasting notes . The 2000 vintage is the best in the Médoc since at least 1996 and possibly 1990 and 1989. The great difference since that pair of vintages of course is that...

An email from the world's most prolific wine author reminds me that we have a new edition of the third edition of The Oxford Companion to Wine out. Dutch publishers Spectrum recently brought out...