For the past 20 years, the last weekend in April or the first weekend in May has always meant the same thing for thousands of wine lovers in California. Each spring at this time, we hop in our...

I wonder how many of the wine drinkers who lap up Australia's rich, sturdy Shirazes realise that they are made from the very same grape as some of France's finest, and rarest, reds, the twin jewels...

I seem to be writing and talking a lot about South Africa at the moment – not because of any particular policy or because I have been there or even tasted a remarkable number of South...

Here are my notes, in descending order of preference, on the eight great 1996 Australian Shirazes and North Rhônes tasted as part of Geoff Merrill's attempts to establish his Henley Shiraz...

...about the iniquity of rock stars, a well-known wine region, 'cartoon wines', Australians (all of them), what happened to the Rhône Rangers, and the wine market in general. See Randall on...