Chinese wines to ring in the New Year – or anytime, really, now that this portfolio is available in the UK. The convivial, wine-loving Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai once heartily suggested to his companion ...

When Ferran Centelles mentioned that we would be in Barcelona he asked to join us for dinner. But whether it was our company or Ferran’s choice of restaurant that was the driving factor was something ...

The Bordeaux vintage tasted most recently at the blind-tasting marathon held every January at Farr Vintners’ Thameside offices in London, 2022, is bittersweet.

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Plus, a trade deal for China and South Africa, falling French wine and spirits exports, a legal case in Australia, and congratulations to Andrew Jefford, awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from ...

Not this one. Aôri’s Muscat of Spina is all about the mountain vineyard and the ungrafted centenarian vines. It’s bone dry, ...

Part six of an eight-part series on how to pair wine with Asian flavours, adapted from Richard’s book. Click here for all the ...

1947 first growths a-go-go. Things were very different when this annual tasting got off the ground. Above, at the prototype tasting in 1980, left to right, an unknown taster, John Thorogood, Liz Morco ...

What you need for a successful blind tasting, and how to set one up. For background, see How – and why – to blind taste. The only items you really need for a blind tasting are a glass, a brown-bagged ...

The last of three articles devoted to the 200-odd 2022 bordeaux tasted blind in this year’s Southwold-on-Thames tastings. See ...

What I am proposing is a new social contract between wine producers, the hospitality industry and consumers – herewith.