I write all too often about the detail of specific wines and all too rarely about the mechanics of how to serve and handle them. But at this time of year, when many of us are in entertaining...

For me, choosing the right wine to serve on a particular occasion is almost as thrilling as the wine itself - perverse as that may seem. It gives me real pleasure to feel that the bottle, or...

For most wine fans, having the right glass is almost as important as having the right wine to go in it. Riedel is by far the most significant name in this field and rightfully so, since they...

For several very different reasons I recently accepted an invitation to be one of the five judges of the UK Sommelier of the Year 2011 Award. It was won by Frenchman Yohann Jousselin of The...

Since Nick is straying into my territory this week by writing about sommeliers , I thought I would venture into his to consider restaurant wine lists and the changing relationship between...

11 Jun - On the day of the announcement of an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for Gérard I learned that although Laurent has indeed gone to Nottingham, Laura Rhys has decided to stay at...

It is a long way from a teetotal, non-meat-eating ashram in Florida to choosing wine for China's top government officials in Beijing but that is the path travelled by 31-year-old Krishna...

As you might imagine, my email Inbox has to be extremely capacious and robust (not least to accommodate invective associated with the vexed question of screwcaps ). A couple of recent emails...

7 Jan - See this interesting set of observations at winespectator.com on preserving the contents of open bottles of wine. The coalition currently governing the UK does something right....

Most of the year I write about what to serve and drink, but during this festive season I'd like to focus on what to serve and drink wine from. I have noticed that wine professionals...

Last weekend London was a magnet for wine professionals. Not only was there one of Decanter's most ambitious wine events, including a tasting of all five first growths with representatives from...

I have long thought that there are several fortunes to be made by enterprising industrial designers prepared to help us wine lovers out with some of our practical problems. The most obviously...

Yesterday's final of the 13th World’s Best Sommelier competition in Santiago de Chile was won, at the sixth attempt, by Gérard Basset representing the UK.  French-born...

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...

It’s not all grim for Gordon Ramsay. Despite the recent bad press hounding him, it seems that his sommeliers are leading the pack. On Monday last week, Sud de France, the new moniker for...