Jan 9, 2017Beaujolais: The Comeback KidThe 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...
Dec 20, 2016The Festive Fortified Wine GuideFortified wines are the perfect, relaxing wines to sip when life moves into the slow lane in the evenings and over the festive period....
Dec 19, 2016What to Drink with Goose? It's easier than you thinkPeople overestimate the difficulty of matching wine to roast goose. I really don't think it's tricky. I do goose at Christmas every year...
Dec 16, 2016The Festive White Wine Guide 2016A 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...
Dec 14, 2016The Festive Red Wine Guide 2016Updated 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...
Dec 9, 2016The Festive Champagne Guide 2016December 29, 2016: prices and stockists updated. I’m writing this a few days after The Wine Gang’s 2016 Ultimate Champagne Evening, so...
Dec 6, 2016Christmas Fizz: anything but ChampagneThe first of this year’s festive round-ups is sparkling wines – any kind of alcoholic fizz except Champagne (Champagne will follow)....
Nov 29, 2016A £12 Wine You Can Age For Two DecadesGrapes for Amarone drying on traditional bamboo trays After visiting Valpolicella last month, I was going to write about the current...
Nov 2, 2016Give Muscadet Some Love: five wines to tryPost updated with more recommendations and more about the crus communaux on 11 November 2016 Muscadet has been having a tough time of it...
Oct 29, 2016Is co-fermentation the new black for Port?Co-fermenting – fermenting different grape varieties together happened by default in the past It was a while since I’d been in the Douro...
Oct 16, 2016A Corker of an Afternoon: checking into the recorking clinicCaught in the act: me snapping the documentary cameraman from National Geographic photographing my three bottles of Grange just before we...
Oct 7, 2016The Next Big Thing...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...
Apr 19, 2016Penfolds Grange and Special Bins: a unique vertical tasting in ParisHosted by the Australian Ambassador to France at "an intimate dinner", it was billed as "the first ever monumental vertical tasting of...
Apr 5, 2016Iconic, historic... it must be Penfolds Grange and a Rewards of Patience tastingPenfolds' fifth Rewards of Patience was a remarkable, unrepeatable tasting over four days in September 2003. It included the complete set...