At long last the citizens of the world may sleep easy in their beds, for yesterday the new EU rules for organic wine were announced. The Standing Committee on Organic Farming will be publishing...

Update 5 Dec 2011: The WSET has filmed the debate (see the news from the forum ) and Richard Hemming gives us a firsthand account . On Thursday 1 December at the headquarters of the Wine...

In this week of the Master of Wine exams, we continue this series of relatively technical profiles of leading New Zealand wine producers of particular interest to Monty Waldin, author of...

Britain's first Natural Wine Fair is currently taking place at Borough Market, London SE1. Those in London for the event include Alice Feiring of the US, Nicolas Joly of the Loire, Ron...

14 Feb 2010 - see here for the outcome of the vote. We Europeans often feel we have very little say in EU decisions, but now apparently we have at least...

While I was in Central Otago in the south of New Zealand recently, I met Robin Dicey of Mt Difficulty . A South African farmer, he had been brought over to New Zealand by Corbans in...

Every year the London International Wine Trade Fair employs a panel of judges to select a top 100 of one sort or another. This year it was the turn of organic and biodynamic wines,...

The number of French wine businesses classified as organic increased by nearly 7% between 2005 and 2006, according to France’s Agence Bio 2006 report. (Agence Bio is an official organisation...

Neville Blech, Bacchus & Comus, London SW7:   I would be curious to know whether you or any other Purple Pagers have ever had a TRULY GREAT organic wine?  I have...

Chile has the ideal conditions for organic viticulture with its dry climate and exceptionally low incidence of vine pests and diseases. Professional wine buyers who have taken a particularly keen...

See purple pages for detailed tasting notes and scores of the blind Riesling tasting referred to here and for notes on current Australian Rieslings. It seemed eerily appropriate that...

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My plan is to write about organic wine soon, probably in a couple of weeks. Two of the wines I'll be recommending are currently on special offer (20 per cent off) at Waitrose, which has one of the...

After Legeron and Maule had opened the NEW11 - Natural European Wine 2011 - conference, the stage was taken by Claude and Lydia Bourguignon, well known for their consultancy to high-profile...

Later that day: quite coincidentally, Woollaston have today announced the appointment of a new winemaker. Shane Munn, previously of Millton in Gisborne, joins their team on 1 Oct....