'Mildew, botrytis (pictured, by Koolbe), blue mould, green mould, you name it, it was everywhere. This is the most difficult vintage I've ever been a part of', said winemaker Sam Spencer, summing...

Two recent tastings of superior white wines for British Airways First Class passengers could not have been more different.   The first was all Australian, the second all American...

Gail Forecki, USA: I am a wine retailer in the US ( Washington state)...

At a certain point in my childhood, Christmas faced a stiff challenge as my favourite holiday. Never mind that I am technically Jewish. For whatever reason, we ended up with a Christmas tree and...

I'm just back from a few days in New York, where we caught up with our younger daughter, who is doing a fashion internship there, did a lot of eating, and celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary...

I am keenly aware that, despite our West Coast editor Linda Murphy's best efforts, our coverage of American wines is woefully spotty. This is mainly because here in the UK we see a relatively...

It was confirmed yesterday what business publications have predicted in recent weeks: that Constellation Brands is selling its Australian, South African and British wine interests to CHAMP...

Despite the lure of Bründlmayer, Josef Leitz, Dr Loosen, Ostertag, Dönnhoff, Hugel and St Urbans-Hof, I spent most of my tasting hours at the recent Riesling Rendezvous in Washington state...

I seriously recommend the website of the American wine trade publication Wines & Vines . In the last few days I have come across two fascinating stories there. The first, Winegrowers cash...

American consumers’ right to order wine from out-of-state producers and have it shipped to their homes is again under siege, this time in the form of a bill introduced in the US House of...

Wines & Vines magazine, based in California, reports that the number of North American wineries grew by 361 in the last year, and by 1,961 since 2005 - impressive growth, indeed, for a...

In the same week, California vintners announced a third-party certification programme for sustainable grapegrowing and winemaking and Wine Business Monthly ( WBM ) revealed that the number of US...

Kermit Lynch is regarded with something approaching awe by American wine lovers. He has spent four decades introducing them to hand-picked wines off the beaten track via a keen grasp of...

Maine, the state in which ex-president/ex-drinker George W Bush's family has a summer home, has a new embarrassment - a law that goes into effect this Saturday prohibiting wine shops and grocery...

Purple pager Ron Perry, professor of horticulture at Michigan State University, kindly collected me at the tiny Lansing airport and took me on a whirlwind tour of his university's experimental...