Field Morris & Verdin, the wholesale arm of Berry Bros & Rudd, have long enjoyed an enviable portfolio of wine producers from the west coast of the…
20 Sep 2018 Richard Hemming MW
Pick a number between one and 20. Multiply it by your age, then add on a significant year (your wedding, your first child’s birth, your favourite…
12 Sep 2018 Richard Hemming MW
Finding a forgotten stash of old wine is an enduring fantasy of the oenophile, in which a treasure trove of dusty bottles is revealed by a sweep of…
6 Sep 2018 Richard Hemming MW
The world's community of Masters of Wine got that little bit less rare today thanks to the addition of 10 newly anointed MWs. There are now 380 across…
31 Aug 2018 Richard Hemming MW
The Wine Society is probably thought of as a well-established, traditional merchant with a good selection of European classics, but the tasting…
30 Aug 2018 Richard Hemming MW
From £9.99, AU$17.99, €15.95, 18.50 Swiss francs, 4,287 Japanese yen Find this wine In keeping with the stories of seminal wines we have been…
24 Aug 2018 Richard Hemming MW
This is the first in a series of Spanish tasting articles to be published this week, of which the most extensive is Ferran's survey of the exciting…
21 Aug 2018 Richard Hemming MW
To mark ten years of having an office in the UK, the Sud de France team recently put on a tasting to celebrate the wide array of wines that they…
13 Aug 2018 Richard Hemming MW
The Round-The-Clock Coffee Shop in Macau offers scrambled, fried, poached or boiled eggs – but if you find it hard to choose between just four…
8 Aug 2018 Richard Hemming MW
The stars aligned in several ways for Matthew Jukes' 100 Best Australian Wines tasting on 30 May in London. Firstly, the room in Australia House was…
7 Aug 2018 Richard Hemming MW
On the face of it, Bulgaria's wine producers seem to have many of the elements needed to entice wine lovers: indigenous varieties, unusual blends,…
30 Jul 2018 Richard Hemming MW
Next year is the fiftieth anniversary of Laithwaite's Wine, the British wine merchant originally known as Bordeaux Direct. According to this FT…
27 Jul 2018 Richard Hemming MW
From €34.84, 640 South African rand, £36.69, 54.78 Swiss francs, 469.90 Norwegian krone, 82.99 Canadian dollars, 6,980 Japanese yen, $73.80, AU$125,…
27 Jul 2018 Richard Hemming MW
Some of Canada's best winemakers gathered in London in May to present their latest reds and whites. As I found out when visiting the Okanagan last…
17 Jul 2018 Richard Hemming MW
The highlights of a recent tasting of current offerings from Oddbins, the UK chain of distinctive wine stores, were the wines it lists from beyond…
13 Jul 2018 Richard Hemming MW
