In Berry Bros' premises in St James's, London, towards the end of last year, Alfred Tesseron presented a range of vintages designed to display all the work he has invested in Ch Pontet-Canet since...

The influence of the moon and the star constellations on how a wine tastes on a particular day has already been discussed in Moody burgundy and other (fairy?) stories and on the forum ; and in...

English-born, Melbourne-based wine writer Max Allen, who is in the process of explaining biodynamics to the Australian wine industry via www.redwhiteandgreen.com.au , and was recently chief...

San Francisco barrel broker Mel Knox wrote this in 2001 and, in the noble spirit of recycling, has sent it for us to savour, in response to this question on members’ forum as to whether...

Organic and biodynamic wines   This is a vast subject growing in importance which has been covered in some depth on the site already. Although an increasing proportion of...

Find The Hedonist I may well lead a sheltered life but this is the first wine I have ever seen so obviously labelled ‘biodynamic’ . That’s in big...

Paul Howard of www.winealchemy.com has submitted the following report on a recent tasting of some particularly intriguing wines.   Frédéric Grappe of Dynamic...

Asit Chandmal, Bombay, India: There is a major and controversial furore in India at the moment about the dangerously high levels of pesticides in Pepsi and Coca Colas, milk, ground water,...

Hugo Stewart, Les Clos Perdus, Peyriac de Mer: Calce, a small village in the Roussillon at the Mediterranean end of the Agly Valley, not far from Perpignan,...

Patricia, London:   After tasting more than two decades of biodynamically-produced wines, I have to comment that they are, in general, excellent, even in the context of their...

Damien Casten, Candid Wines, IL:   I'm just back from two fantastic weeks of tasting in the Loire, Champagne, Alsace and Burgundy and am enjoying reading through the wealth...

22 feb: See also Traveller's tales and BD David Schildknecht, OH:   The critical question is whether one’s vines, wines and environment are better...

Visiting a wine producer near Perpignan in the far south of France last August, I was surprised to bump into one of my fellow wine writers Monty Waldin reaching deep into a sack of dried nettle...

Geraldine Reid, Renaissance Vineyard,Sierra Foothills, CA: Can you or readers tell me their experiences of cellaring wine at altitude?  A search of your site brings up much on...

Pieter Rosenthal, Glasgow: Over the last few months I have started organising blind tastings for friends and found it a great way to spend an evening in. Afterwards I write up the tasting notes...