See Virginia wine - tasting notes , Sparkling Viognier at Horton Vineyards and this video . Rutger de Vink is a young man blessed with a memorable name, and considerable funds...

See also Virginia - the tasting notes , Sparkling Viognier at Horton Vineyards , this video  and my more detailed article this Saturday. Wine enjoys an exceptional level of...

See also Virginia wine - first impressions , Sparkling Viognier at Horton Vineyards , this video and Virginia's new star . One great bonus of my trip to the (American) Wine...

The Champenois are no strangers to California, having in the 1980s established Domaine Chandon, Mumm Napa and Domaine Carneros in Napa Valley, Roederer Estate in Mendocino County, and the defunct...

The American state of Virginia has played an important part in the history of wine. It was here that the third president of the United States Thomas Jefferson experimented with viticulture, and...

Barbera has been well and truly rehabilitated in Piedmont, north-west Italy, over the last decade. Now there are signs that Albarossa, a crossing of Nebbiolo and Barbera, will become more widely...

See also Virginia wine - first impressions , Virginia wine - tasting notes and Virginia's new star . In the wake of all my recent coverage of the wine scene in Virginia, I...

See also Sparkling Viognier at Horton Vineyards and my upcoming article on Saturday. In Virginia - the tasting notes and Virginia wine - first impressions , one winery comes in for...

The supposed centrepiece wine tasting at last month's Wine Bloggers' Conference in Charlottesville, Virginia, was a giant tasting of Virginia wines at the beautiful estate of America's most...

Update 25 Jul 2011: For an inside glimpse, see my video on Speed tasting with the bloggers . I'll be taking my work on the grape book across the Atlantic this morning on my way to...

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...

Stéphane Derenoncourt , the St-Émilion-based, globe-trotting winemaking consultant, has finally landed in California, not only as an advisor to Francis Ford Coppola at Rubicon Estate in Napa...