Volcanic Wine Awards 2026

Tim is competing in the Henley Royal Regatta at 6.30 tonight. We wish him well as part of the London Rowing Club B team against Münchener Ruder-Club von 1880. He promises, 'It will be entertaining, if nothing else!' Fields, Morris...

From $26.99, €32.40, £217 per case of 6 Find this wine What’s in a name? Everything in this case: from the motivation to the result. Pure is the result of a partnership between vineyard owner Manolis Chloridis and winemaker Matthew...

Julia finds a mouth-wateringly delicious red from Tenerife that tastes as good on a sunny summer's evening as on a bleak winter night. From €10.95, 19.50 Swiss francs, $18.98, £17.99, CA$27.95, 199,90 Norwegian krone, AU$39 Find this wine It’s not...

Contrade dell’Etna, the annual en primeur presentation of Etna wines which took place last April just below Europe’s largest and still active volcano, provided me with one of the earliest insights into Italy’s complicated 2017 vintage. It is Italy’s only...

One of the saddest recent losses to the wine world was that of Haridimos Hatzidakis, all-too-young founder of the outstanding eponymous winery on the island of Santorini. As his UK importer Mary Pateras of Eclectic Wines put it last year...

From 19.40 Swiss francs, £20.09, $24.99 Find this wine Last month I found myself in New York reading Cork Dork, that ripper of a read so enthusiastically reviewed by Tam recently. The protagonist spends time working in New York’s awesome...

25 January 2018 We are republishing this fascinating article free today in our Throwback Thursday series. 17 January 2018 Dr José Vouillamoz, co-author of Wine Grapes , presents some wines worth discovering. It's interesting to compare this with Ferran's recent...

18 January 2018 Today we are republishing free Ferran’s excellent investigative report on the wines and vineyards of Tenerife, including a video that reveals a unique insight into the role of Tenerife in the history of the wine trade. For...

See Sicily 2017 – the guide for all the fascinating articles in this series. There is a group of tiny islands, the Isole Eoli or the Aeolian Islands, on Sicily’s north coast just an hour off Milazzo by boat. One...

See also Hidden Etna Part 1 – the east and the associated tasting notes . For all our recent coverage of the island, see Sicily 2017 – the guide . Unlike Etna’s east side, the south side has struggled not...

This is the first of two riveting articles based on Walter's original researches on the less familiar flanks of Sicily's famous volcano. See also Historic Etna part 2 – the south and historic west and associated tasting notes . For...

24 August 2017 We're republishing this article from 2009, in our Throwback Thursday series, as a tribute to the hugely talented Haridimos Hatzidakis who so tragically took his own life recently. He had been troubled for some time, and leaves...