Update 3 May 2013 from Tam Currin: I was sent a sample of Ch de Roquefort's unique Grêle 2012 (label on right. embossed with the names of the vignerons who helped), a wine that really...

To accompany my recent  Provençal vision of the future  article, here follows a collection of tasting notes on that region's major output, rosé. The most notable wine, however, is...

Rural Provence has a certain timelessness: the fields of lavender, crumbling villages and rolling vineyards are an echo of a France frozen from a distant generation. Encountering the cutting edge...

Rosé is fast becoming a colour of choice no matter the month, apparently defying its traditional summertime association, but it didn't seem the sunniest prospect at a generic Provence tasting on...

23 Sep 2009 update - it would appear that a Côtes de Provence rosé was left out of this line-up, and after tasting it I felt that it really did deserve to be mentioned. Having not tasted...

Despite the early morning sunshine, my wife [that's me, probably fretting over this website - JR] was initially reluctant to accompany me on a brief pre-breakfast walk along the medieval ramparts...

In a nutshell: Dry rosés, firm, spicy reds and dry, gently aromatic whites. Main grapes: Grenache, Cinsaut, Syrah, Mourvèdre, Cabernet Sauvignon (red); Rolle or Vermentino...

Brew Wharf, the recently opened restaurant with its own micro-brewery, seemed the most appropriate place to catch up with Rupert Ponsonby, the leading light behind the emergence of beer lists...

Fine wine merchant Robert Rolls has entered into the spirit of Wine Relief in a particularly clever and intriguing way, by instituting the Wine Investment Challenge. He presents a list of fine...

John Hicks of Maurice Carrie Winery and Van Roekel Vineyards contacted me the other day to ask why I had included his region, Temecula in southern California, in the list of five world wine...

Ch Vignelaure outside the pretty university town of Aix-en-Provence is one of the properties to come to the aid of a neighbour this year, as reported in Provençal rescue . By coincidence, I have...

From £15.63 Find this wine In Europe we are starting to feel the cool grip of autumn, particularly at night and in the early morning. Time, then, to reach for fuller...

One set of wines I was sent to taste during my month in the Languedoc seemed quintessentially summery to me, so I am publishing the notes before our European summer fades (and while all our...

From £14.50 Find this wine If you go for that struck-match quality in your white burgundy, this wine is a steal. It has it in spades. In fact it is almost a pastiche of the style...

This small selection of tasting notes on particularly fine rosés from two of Provence's top estates, d'Esclans owned by Sacha Lichine and Léoube by Sir Anthony and Lady Bamford of JCB and...