Rebecca Yeamans is the tasting-room manager for Afton Mountain Vineyards in Virginia. She writes a blog called The Academic Wino , which is about ‘dissecting current research related to...

Have you ever despaired of life itself when faced with the wine selection in hotel minibars? When Stephen Rapoport recently drank an overpriced, fridge-chilled miniature of Merlot in a Berlin...

Susanna Forbes, founder of www.DrinkBritain.com , gives us her introduction to wine tourism in the UK, with her pick of some of the best places to visit. (Just in passing – both Jancis...

Personal recommendations are invaluable when it comes to places to stay, eat or buy wine - as is clear from the requests and generous and detailed responses in the Travel stuff section of our...

One of the most difficult questions for a wine writer to answer is 'which wineries should I visit?' As in so many aspects of our professional lives, we are spoilt. We scarcely notice the red...

Carol Horton, Italy: Do you know of any wine tours over the...

Kent Lewis, Washington, DC: Any clever suggestions about how to arrange a tour of...

Jon Hicke, Vancouver, Canada: My partner and I will be travelling to Barcelona the second week of...