Below is a rich and, I hope, useful collection of tasting notes on wines in unusually wide commercial distribution, all taken at the first big tasting organised by relatively new UK online wine...

This is peak time for burgundy offers in the UK with thousands of 2009s, many of them spread between several different merchants. The following is a list of those merchants we know of who are...

The UK Wine and Spirit Trade Association probaly had this press release ready weeks ago in anticipation of yet another rise in duties on alcohol in our beleaguered country. 'The WSTA condemns...

English and Welsh wine is not a joke, although the average Briton may treat it as such. In fact the British are the only nation to assume automatically, and usually ignorantly, that their own...

Much is being made today of the fact that sales of wine at over £10 a bottle at Tesco, Britain's leading supermarket group, have risen by 74% over the last year. The Daily Mail adds two...

Master of Wine Simon Thorpe sported a beatific beam at last week’s Wines of South Africa tasting in London’s old Billingsgate fish market. For the first time in eight years he was able to roam...

Helen Jolliffe, London: Congratulations on this civilised and informative web site. Can you recommend a good company which delivers wine to your home? I have used The Wine Society but would...

Iain Storey, London: I agree with you wholeheartedly...

Iain Liston-Brown, UK: Re wine of this week , your M&S...

I heard a rumour that the proposed bill that would restrict distribution of wines and spirits within California to a single distributor (see [link]) had definitely been abandoned. I asked Mannie...

It was announced with regret today that owing to ill health, Nick Dobson Wines will cease trading in 2012. A member of the Association of Small Direct Wine Merchants, Nick Dobson is known for the...

The next time you're popping into Selfridge's on Oxford Street to pick up a Tiffany necklace or a Hermès handbag, you might also want to check out their wine by the glass. Their Wonder Bar is...

I couldn't resist passing on the following review of the year based on the sales figures of one of the most prominent wine merchants in the UK (with a substantial presence in Asia too):...

Stone, Vine & Sun was one of the first of Britain's current welcome wave of small independent wine merchants selling mainly by word of mouth and the internet. It was founded in Hampshire by...

Oddbins are gradually rehabilitating themselves on the unforgiving UK high street. It's a name that has been through all manner of fortunes now, most recently being bought by European Food Brokers...