Yesterday the baby-faced George Osborne who, as the grandly titled Chancellor of the Exchequer, is in charge of our country’s finances, presented his annual Budget. As soon as he announced there...

Below is a rich and, I hope, useful collection of tasting notes on wines in unusually wide commercial distribution, all taken at the first big tasting organised by relatively new UK online wine...

This is peak time for burgundy offers in the UK with thousands of 2009s, many of them spread between several different merchants. The following is a list of those merchants we know of who are...

The UK Wine and Spirit Trade Association probaly had this press release ready weeks ago in anticipation of yet another rise in duties on alcohol in our beleaguered country. 'The WSTA condemns...

English and Welsh wine is not a joke, although the average Briton may treat it as such. In fact the British are the only nation to assume automatically, and usually ignorantly, that their own...

Much is being made today of the fact that sales of wine at over £10 a bottle at Tesco, Britain's leading supermarket group, have risen by 74% over the last year. The Daily Mail adds two...

Master of Wine Simon Thorpe sported a beatific beam at last week’s Wines of South Africa tasting in London’s old Billingsgate fish market. For the first time in eight years he was able to roam...

Helen Jolliffe, London: Congratulations on this civilised and informative web site. Can you recommend a good company which delivers wine to your home? I have used The Wine Society but would...

Iain Storey, London: I agree with you wholeheartedly...

Iain Liston-Brown, UK: Re wine of this week , your M&S...

I heard a rumour that the proposed bill that would restrict distribution of wines and spirits within California to a single distributor (see [link]) had definitely been abandoned. I asked Mannie...

I try to go to Majestic’s biannual wine tastings for wine writers as often as possible. Not because the range changes that much, but simply because so many of my friends ask me for...

Laithwaites is the world's leading direct retailer of wine, running not just most of the wine clubs in the UK such as those of the Sunday Times and British Airways but also those of the...

St James's wine merchant Justerini & Brooks tried a novel idea recently - and were thrilled by how well it worked. Although they regularly hold tastings to introduce their customers to wines...

The Wine Society continues to work hard to provide reliable and stimulating bottles for its members - who have to buy a single £40 share in this historic British wine-buying cooperative....