Among many nuggets of opinion offered in your answers to our recent brief survey were niggles about the timing of UK merchants' offers of the latest Rhône vintage. Some visitors to...

Michel Chapoutier is one of those wine producers who, like Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon, just love to talk. This makes them perfect as quote machines for us wine writers. (In fact our colleague...

Official reports from the Rhône V alley are rather smug. In essence, 'we know the rest of France has been suffering but we have very little vine disease, no drought to speak of and, unlike...

Most French vineyards are developing much later than they were in 2011, which was admittedly an exceptionally early year. After three precocious vintages, 2012 sees a return to the old...

Three days in four of Italy’s most romantic-sounding cities – Padua, Ferrara, Mantua and Cremona – provided more than enough vivid images to fill the memory card on my camera....