For an overview of 1996 Bordeaux, see 1996 Bordeaux - a classic for now , and Bordeaux '96s today - the tasting notes . It gives me great pleasure to publish such a comprehensive set of...

These 90-odd wines were tasted blind in flights in London in sep 05 with another 15 tasters from the UK and the Bordeaux wine trade. The mechanics of the tasting were organised by Farr Vintners...

The French may be being squeezed out of the mass market but in the most exciting price bracket of all, £6-12 ($8-15) a bottle, they are impossible to beat. This is partly because at long last...

It is a real problem that most of the fine wines that are written about in detail are years, sometimes decades, away from being ready to drink. When offered the chance to sample a mature vintage...

Very probably as you read this I will be attempting to make some sense of Vinitaly, the massive, attractively anarchic, annual wine fair in Verona. From Sunday Julia and I will be hurtling around...

Bruno Francois, Canada: I purchased some 1995 d'Yquem last year. I cannot find any...