The 2019 MW examination papers are reproduced below. From the outside, the Royal National Hotel looks like something out of HBO's Chernobyl…
18 Jun 2019 Richard Hemming MW
A new Rhône discovery that represents a real insider's tip. From €9.90, £10.50 Find this wine This is not only a wine of the week, but an…
14 Jun 2019 Richard Hemming MW
Is finding the right food and wine match ever possible? Probably ...When you consider the virtually infinite number of different foods and wines there…
12 Jun 2019 Richard Hemming MW
Another sterling selection from the great British merchant. The Classics to Moderns range of sheet-music books is a standard text for aspiring…
21 May 2019 Richard Hemming MW
A photographic journey to the top of the hill of Hermitage. While in France last month, taking part in the biennial Découvertes en Vallée du…
14 May 2019 Richard Hemming MW
A thoroughly reliable pink for summer – or anytime. From €11.40, $13.57, 14.90 Swiss francs, £14.95 Find this wine Like the first cuckoo in…
10 May 2019 Richard Hemming MW
Yes it does. And this vertical proved it. See also Jancis's article on sherry, and Montilla, Gems of Andalucía ignored, published today. To…
9 May 2019 Richard Hemming MW
How technology is being used to share every detail of how a wine is produced – for free. If you could know the formula for great wine, would you…
8 May 2019 Richard Hemming MW
If wine will be the death of you ... would you still drink it? As if we didn’t already have enough to worry about, what with cataclysmic climate…
10 Apr 2019 Richard Hemming MW
Prices for several vintages of this Portuguese wine of the week are presented below. 2015 from 225 Ukranian hryvnia, €7.95, £16.99 (magnum),…
29 Mar 2019 Richard Hemming MW
Tasting note addenda for 2017 Rhône en primeur – including Rostaing. See our guide to Rhône 2017 coverage. This collection of 53 tasting notes is…
18 Mar 2019 Richard Hemming MW
Goodness is in the glass of the beholder – depending on your definitions. Wine is, on the face of it, an utterly superfluous luxury. The majority…
13 Mar 2019 Richard Hemming MW
From €15, £20.14, 21.95 Swiss francs, NZ$32.99, 99 Polish zloty, $30, 3,520 Japanese yen, 179.90 Brazilian real Find this wine Italian white…
1 Mar 2019 Richard Hemming MW
Looking into the latest developments in English wine tourism. See also English wine in a hole over nomenclature and Hampshire chalks it up. As…
26 Feb 2019 Richard Hemming MW
Tabula Rasa red (50 cl) from £6.74 Tabula Rasa white (50 cl) from AU$14, £8.99 Find Tabula Rasa wines In a craft-beer-style 50-cl bottle, with a…
15 Feb 2019 Richard Hemming MW
