Find Esclans wines I said in the introduction to Tam Currin's recent review of Provençal rosés that the best pink wine to have come my way had been from Ch d'Esclans, the estate set up...

Who would have thought that worms would play such a crucial role in the champagne producers' current public relations campaign? All over the world, champagne, the most ostentatious drink...

We may not be buying expensive fizz in anything like the way we did as recently as a year ago, but last week saw the annual generic champagne tasting in London, where most of the 80+ champagnes...

Do we care that the EU is reported to be set to allow pink wine to be made by simply blending red and white (see Rosé? Just mix red and white says EU )?  Unlike many Provençal wine...

See also my tasting notes on selected pink wines and champagnes. “The world is awash with rosé,” observed an old friend who once managed one of London’s most...

  Below are tasting notes on nearly 80 pink wines in extremely varied styles. Tomorrow I’ll publish an overview of the range of pink wines currently available (you won't be able...

Burgundy is not a natural place to look for the pink wines that have so seamlessly been absorbed into the wine drinking mainstream over the past few years (see The rise and rise of rosé...

Michael Alberty, Corkscrew Wine Emporium, Urbana IL:   With all this talk about pink wine I thought I should give everybody a "heads up" about a great new book....

Lee Goldsmith, Cannes: I am based in Cannes and have tested very extensively. The best wines from Provence will compare favourably with rosé wines from anywhere in the...

See my introductory overview in fine wine news. Below, two of the most exciting wines are dark pink Italians, the Montepulciano and the very last one, made from perfumed Lacrima grapes....

For wine professionals “red or white?” is one of the most difficult questions in the world. We want to know “which red and which white are they exactly? I’ll try both,...

Rodrigo Mainardi, São Paolo: After reading you exciting Scores of pink wines - some really lovely I was eager to try Alvaro Castro's new Quinta da Pellada Rosé 2003. I took a bottle home to...

Stuart Aiken, Hampshire: I was delighted to see your tasting notes on rosé wines, so good in summer and so often underrated. I have a view, probably biased, that by far the most enjoyable...

Rosé has been rehabilitated as a fashionable drink for at least two summers now but I refrained from making a song and dance about the 2003s because so many of them were casualties of the...

Carol Horton, Rome: I eat very simple foods these days- and enjoy making them for others. One of the things I love is a parmesan cheese omelette and a leafy green salad with French dressing....