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Inside information Samantha reports on some welcome fine weather. Eventually. Ah winemaking! How romantic… I just soaped my hair and watched a...

Inside information First-picked 2019 Chardonnay grapes shown here. Fingers crossed for drier weather. Click on the tag to find last week's despatch...

Inside information Another revealing encounter at San Polino outside Montalcino and praise for their 2014. At the beginning of August I visited...

Inside information Samantha Cole-Johnson, who submitted the recently published Portland for wine lovers in our 2019 wine travel writing competition ( vote...

Inside information Walter comments, reluctantly, on this year's vintage in Italy. Later that same day The first official estimates for the total...

Inside information 12 September 2019 Remember to vote for your favourite entry in our summer travel writing competition. You have until midnight...

Inside information A look at the most pressing issues on the island today. See also Santorini tasting notes part 1 and part...

Inside information Fresh(?) from tasting myriad GGs in Wiesbaden, Michael tells us what everyone in German wine is talking about. Is it...

Inside information Vineyards among the boulders on this windswept Cycladic island are starting to get into their stride and seem likely to...

Inside information As I write in the western Languedoc on Sunday 4 August, I am desperate to write this before the temperature...

Inside information Elaine Chukan Brown visits Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon's cradle of dreams, his new vineyard well off the beaten track...

Inside information The ambitions and challenges of the Japanese region of Nagano in central Honshu. See also Nagano – the tasting notes...

Inside information Important changes on the Japanese wine scene. During my visits to Yamanashi and Nagano (report next week), I began to...

Inside information Terrible news and pictures from Priorat, Aragón and Gredos. I am writing this post with great sadness, overwhelmed by the...

Inside information Connections with the Grateful Dead, Priorat, Macedonia and the southern Rhône drawn on the West Coast by the king of...

Inside information Rains that (almost) never stopped are reported in Italy. 12 June 2019 Piero Lanza of the Poggerino estate in Gaiole...