From £15.60, Ca$29.95, Sing$54, Aus$129.95 for six Find this wine This wine of the week represents our current preoccupation of ensuring that you realise how good...

It is almost two years since I enjoyed a blind tasting of (mostly) Australian Pinot Noir with Tom Carson, winemaker at Yabby Lake in Australia's Mornington Peninsula (profiled here by Jancis...

One of several general tastings organised at last month's well-attended Australian generic tasting at London's Saatchi Gallery was a snapshot of some cool-climate Chardonnays from the state of...

From 74 Danish Krone, £8.99, Aus$15.95, €12.70, 19.50 Swiss francs, 73.90 Malaysian ringgit, and 660 Swedish krone for six bottles Find this wine Last week's annual...

Almost exactly 34 years ago my very first professional wine tasting took place in Canada House, overlooking the fountains of Trafalgar Square in central London. It featured what were then...

The Australians are understandably fed up with all the criticism that their wines have attracted recently. A special feature of this year's generic tasting at the Saatchi Gallery in London was a...

Day 4 of the Landmark Tutorial started with an excellent tasting of Chardonnays, presented by the very personable Michael Hill Smith AM, who became Australia's first ever Master of Wine in...

I described in The Letts look and give back the background to this extraordinary vertical tasting of every vintage made of The Eyrie Vineyards Chardonnay, of which sometimes fewer than 50 cases...

Chardonnay's a funny grape. It is arguably the most popular in the world, and yet most of those who love it would find it difficult to describe exactly what it tastes of. The truth, I suspect,...

As we all know, technology advances at breakneck pace. Today’s 3G iPhone is tomorrow’s Betamax. Each week, life becomes more automated, more connected, more user-friendly. And yet...

Michael D Walkden, UK: Has the bubble burst for Chardonnay, or is it being repackaged so as to...

gero question: I live in Austria and just got your book Wine-tasting in my hands. First: Great...

from: Philip Rich of Australia question: In response to your article about Leeuwin Estate and Giaconda (by far my...

Most of the focus of attention on top quality Australian wine is lavished on her red wines but some of her white wines are well worthy of attention too. I'm thinking particularly of Clare and...

The team behind this invaluable annual has just announced which wines have won its coveted Five Star awards for 2004. I'm delighted to see that several wines which stood out during my brief stay...