From €5.21, £9.95, $14.12 Find this wine This week's wine is hardly a trouvaille , an unknown gem. The Guigals of Ampuis are the kings of the northern Rhône, in terms of...

See more than 650 tasting notes on Rhône 2009s on Purple pages. The northern Rhône is currently one of the most exciting wine regions of France, and not just because the two last...

We have already augmented the collection of about 600 tasting notes on Rhône 2009s since we published them with tasting notes on some of the wines currently on offer from Bibendum Wine in the...

5 Jan - we now have more than 150 tasting notes on 2009s from the northern  Rhône and more than 500 on 2009s from the southern Rhône.  24 Nov - tasting notes have been...

Find our 600+  tasting notes via our Guide to 2009 Rh ôn e coverage . As in Bordeaux, the vignerons of the Rhône Valley certainly didn't undersell the virtues of their 2009s...

See our Guide to 2009 Rhône coverage  (which includes a list of those UK merchants currently making offers of them) and also my May tasting notes on the excellent Chapoutier 2009s ....

See our Guide to 2009 Rhône coverage , not least for its list of UK merchants making offers of these wines. Yesterday we published so many tasting notes on red Châteauneufs that we...

Along with its neighbour Dão, Bairrada is one of Portugal's most classic red table wine regions. Douro has been catching up fast and Alentejo is a hotbed of experimentation (hardly classic)...

Judging from a less-than-frantic pre-sale tasting today, Wednesday the 14th, there just might be one or two bargains here. Or not. Many of the winery owners are in town for their annual Napa...

Here's the second and final Bordeaux vintage report from Jean Michel Cazes, recently retired from leading AXA's wine interests and now based firmly at his family's Ch Lynch Bages in Pauillac....

Merchants may be busy touting Bordeaux 2011 , now using Parker's scores with gay abandon, but I'm not sure how interested their customers are. Instead we'd like to remind you just how exciting...

See our 650 reviews of Rhône 2010s . Buy Rhône before the Chinese do! We already have strong indications that Chinese fine-wine lovers are turning their well-heeled attentions from...

From 9.80 Swiss francs, €9.90, £13 (plus tax) $24.99, NZ$40.50, Can$33.75 and Aus$48 a bottle Find the 2009 Find the 2010 This bargain combines two of my...

See my tasting notes on Chapoutier's 2010 Sélections Parcellaires Michel Chapoutier has been in sole charge of one of the three famous wine producers based at the foot of the hill of...

From £18.99, $16.99, €15.99 Find this wine I may be biased, but there does seem to be a craze for Crozes at the moment. My first taste of Jaboulet’s Domaine de Thalabert made...