The dinner menu at Le Café Anglais on Monday 8 Mar was headed A Night in Panzano. But the more frequently I looked around the packed dining room and took in some of the characters, the more I...

Figures supplied by the Chianti Classico Consorzio clearly imply some sort of stabilisation in exports, where decline in the most important markets is compensated for by slight growth in others....

As I signposted in New sweet white from Ornellaia , Bolgheri grows a mind-boggling range of grape varieties. Finding Viognier, Sauvignon Blanc, Tannat, Sangiovese and Syrah all planted close to...

One of the observations made in Sassacaia - the background understatements is that the Bolgheri DOC is getting too big. The implication was that quality suffers as a result, but there is...

As you will see from my enthusiastic scores in Sassicaia back to 1975 , I was recently treated to a great tasting organised by UK importers Armit at Lena restaurant in London of a dozen...

See my accompanying tasting notes on 19 top Tuscans and tasting notes on Umani Ronchi verticals.   See also the Vino Fratelli Antinori video. Like many wine importers in Germany,...

The following tasting notes were taken at tasting and dinner in Hamburg last weekend designed to prove that, yes, Tuscan reds can age! I'll be writing more about the background to the event on...

Lodovico, 65,  and Piero Antinori, a youthful-looking 71, flew to Hamburg for the afternoon last Saturday to give an assembled group of wine lovers an early taste of the long-awaited Biserno,...

My recent visit to Tuscany with a group of international journalists for a set of vertical tastings was full of ups and downs: the ranges of hills that bump across the horizon, the range of years...

The Consorzio in charge of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano has proposed controversial changes to the rules for this famous southern Tuscan wine. Currently Vino Nobile, the very first wine ever...

As promised in this week's delicious wine of the week , here are my notes to date on the current vintage of Brunello di Montalcino. I tasted almost all 38 of these 2004 Brunellos at Vinitaly in...

From £8.95 Find this wine When captains of industry own vineyards, I am usually made aware of this fact via said captain of industry or their henchpeople and their attempts...

On this dark grey morning in London, I thought I'd import some strong rays of Italian sunshine via the following tasting notes taken at a showing of wines from 10 great estates by UK Italian...

2007 A mild winter was followed by a cool start of spring, with even weather causing early budbreak. Fears for spring frost proved unfounded. The weather remained pretty textbook, with...

This is Walter Speller's third collection of notes from last month's Collezione tasting in Florence, pictured here. CHIANTI CLASSICO 2005 RISERVAS Angelini, Tenuta San...