As I wrote in German Pinotland, Germany's reds are becoming increasingly interesting, partly thanks to climate change. Pinot Noir, aka Spätburgunder,…
22 Sep 2017 Jancis Robinson
See also Middle Eastern wine update.At the beginning of this month Nick and I went to Israel and the West Bank – my first trip ever and Nick's first…
21 Sep 2017 Jancis Robinson
See also the guides to our entire coverage of Germany’s 2016s and 2015s, and our reviews of the 2017 GG tasting – reds and 2017 GG tasting – Rieslings…
20 Sep 2017 Michael Schmidt
Following on from our Plethora of Portuguese whites, here is the second in the trio of articles, this one focusing on red wines. Sweet and/or…
19 Sep 2017 Julia Harding MW
When does a variety stop becoming alternative? We first covered non-mainstream varieties from Australia back in 2009, and I followed up with 75…
18 Sep 2017 Richard Hemming MW
See also Northern Greece part 1 – Amyndeo. The second half of my trip in May this year took me east of Amyndeo to Gouménissa. Although I did not visit…
15 Sep 2017 Julia Harding MW
See also 2017 news from Champagne and NB the NV revolution.I grew up within 15 miles of the Scottish border, which meant that our family hardly…
14 Sep 2017 Jancis Robinson
For full details of our coverage of the excellent 2016 vintage in Germany, see this guide. Michael writes There were 440 wines in total at this…
13 Sep 2017 Jancis Robinson Michael Schmidt
Friedrich Schiller, the eighteenth-century German poet and philosopher, said, ‘There is no causality, what we see as chance arises from a deep…
12 Sep 2017 Ferran Centelles
Zubair Mohamed started selling wine at the back of his father's florist shop in Edinburgh in 1984. According to the World of Fine Wine's Neil Beckett,…
8 Sep 2017 Julia Harding MW
For a quick look back in time, see Jancis's report on Sicily, Italy's new California, written 15 years ago. The presentation of the new vintages at…
7 Sep 2017 Walter Speller
For our coverage of the exceptional 2015 vintage in Germany, see this guide. And for more background to these wines see German Pinotland.Jancis writes…
6 Sep 2017 Jancis Robinson Michael Schmidt
As one of the most prestigious and rarest cuvées in Champagne, Salon always steals the headlines when it is released, but the first thing I want to…
5 Sep 2017 Richard Hemming MW
As Nick wrote recently in An unpacker's lament, we got back to London from the Languedoc to find quite a lot of unsolicited samples awaiting (no…
4 Sep 2017 Jancis Robinson
See also For French value, head south.Yesterday I published tasting notes on more than 100 current releases of wines grown in the Languedoc and…
1 Sep 2017 Jancis Robinson
