These days it seems as though the tool of choice for the upper echelon of the American fine-wine scene is neither a Laguiole nor a personal cellar consultant, but a lawyer. The buzz of...

'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)...

Here are two videos of some of what I got up to recently while launching American Wine  on the east coast of the US. My hard-working co-author Linda Murphy and I launched it together on...

See recent tasting notes on a mixed bag of American wines in Stars, stripes and vines . For his generation, Dustin Wilson, 33, has a dream job. A Maryland boy, he is now a Master Sommelier...

The 63 wines described below are just some of those I encountered on my recent whirlwind tour of the United States to celebrate publication of American Wine , a new book that was my idea but is...

A few years ago London's fine-wine traders and merchants en masse opened up subsidiaries in Hong Kong. As you can see in Asians hoover up top 2009s , there was a time when this was a licence to...

To much of the civilised world, it seems most natural. You walk into your local grocery store or supermarket and walk out with the ingredients for your dinner and a wine to drink with it. This is,...

Hardly has the dust settled on Wine Grapes (for which we were awarded the top drinks book prize in Paris last weekend at the Gourmand Cookbook Fair underneath the Louvre, well away from the...

'I've never fired a winemaker, they've always fired themselves. Every one of them has had their own issues', said Don Bryant, proprietor of Bryant Family Wines, when I called him up to talk about...

See our guide to 2012 wine book reviews . Soft Soil, Black Grapes The Birth of Italian Winemaking in California Simone Cinotto New York University Press...

One of my embarrassing personal secrets has always been that I have a lousy memory for what I drink. People often ask me, have you had this or that wine, and quite often my answer involves...

See also Jim Law's account of the situation in Virginia . When storms hit US wine regions, one can count on wine journalists to contact producers in search of a 'sky is falling' story. For...

See also Alder Yarrow on  Prices and politics in California's 2012 harvest .  To write a book on American wine, it helps to be a Weather Channel junkie. Hurricanes in the South,...