The famous windmill that gave its name to Moulin-à-Vent, one of the ten crus of Beaujolais I was slightly wary of showing a Beaujolais to...

Fortified wines are the perfect, relaxing wines to sip when life moves into the slow lane in the evenings and over the festive period....

People overestimate the difficulty of matching wine to roast goose. I really don't think it's tricky. I do goose at Christmas every year...

A round-up of white wines – dry first, then sweet – to cover the festive season, whether it's a quiet night in, basic crowd control, or...

Updated 15 December to take in a Christmas offer price in the Co-op – £5 off its Chateauneuf-du-Pape A round-up of red wines of all...

December 29, 2016: prices and stockists updated. I’m writing this a few days after The Wine Gang’s 2016 Ultimate Champagne Evening, so...

The first of this year’s festive round-ups is sparkling wines – any kind of alcoholic fizz except Champagne (Champagne will follow)....

Grapes for Amarone drying on traditional bamboo trays After visiting Valpolicella last month, I was going to write about the current...

Post updated with more recommendations and more about the crus communaux on 11 November 2016 Muscadet has been having a tough time of it...

Co-fermenting – fermenting different grape varieties together happened by default in the past It was a while since I’d been in the Douro...

Caught in the act: me snapping the documentary cameraman from National Geographic photographing my three bottles of Grange just before we...

This is the sort of piece I normally write at the close of the year, but I have more than enough material and deserving wines to mention...

Hosted by the Australian Ambassador to France at "an intimate dinner", it was billed as "the first ever monumental vertical tasting of...

Penfolds' fifth Rewards of Patience was a remarkable, unrepeatable tasting over four days in September 2003. It included the complete set...