You may remember my article last March about What happens to your wine en route . In it I outlined the efforts of a new, US-based company eProvenance to monitor the temperature of wine in...

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...

See also Schildknecht on reefer madness for an ex-importer's view. Last summer a thousand cases of very fine wine indeed had to be poured straight down San Francisco’s...

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...