François Audouze, Paris-based organiser of www.wine-dinners.com , is seen here at the Clos de Tart tasting demonstrating his own special way of extracting particularly old corks. He was...

One of the major concerns among fine wine lovers today has become the problem known as 'premature oxidation' in white wines, particularly white burgundies (see, for example, the recent forum...

The battles in the closure universe over TCA-derived cork taint and oxygen transmission rates are still being waged, with a good deal of research in full swing, but natural cork (close up of...

Before wrestling with the cork or other stopper , the wine drinker encounters another illogical barrier to wine enjoyment, the often impenetrable foil or capsule that covers the cork. An...

The world's wine producers spend a lot of time asking themselves and each other how to persuade more people to drink wine. And yet they continue to sell the vast majority of their production in...

Purple pager Barbara Burlingame of Rome has just reminded me of an article I wrote for the Financial Times five years ago which she found particularly useful. It occurred to me that the...

Filipe da Mota Neves worked for the Portuguese trade office in London promoting Portuguese wines and ports very successfully (as I observed in Portugal – how to convince the rest of the...

In the 1990s I went to take a look at Amorim in Portugal, the world’s pre-eminent cork supplier. On the way to one of their cork processing plants my host anxiously discussed the weather...

The world's leading cork producer Amorim of Portugal has sent out a summary of the company’s first annual Sustainability Report for anyone not wanting to plough through all 86 pages of it...

After a period in the doldrums the UK weekly wine trade publication Harpers ( www.harpers.co.uk ) has become really quite meaty.   It still doesn’t arrive until Monday...

Why is it that New Zealand is such a common battleground for the holy war being waged between advocates and opponents of screwcaps? I am always being sent vicious correspondence on the subject....

David Gleave MW is an exceptional wine importer. Canadian by birth, he fell in love with wine in the British Isles and has built up his company Liberty Wines from scratch to become one of the...

I got an invitation from Tim Johnston of Juveniles (ex Willi’s Wine Bar) to a tasting of screwcapped wines he organised in Paris on Monday. Since screwcaps are such strange beasts to...

  David Schildknecht, US: I am perfectly willing to...

Michael A Green: Sorry to bother you about TCA again (see Dogs and...