Welcome to my roundup of Champagnes and sparkling wines for the festive season. It's always a pleasure to publish this – with an...

Update, August 12 I've just added two more wines to this, so it's now 12 appetite-whetting rosés. The additions, Ramón Bilbao Rosado and...

My picks for the second weekend of English Wine Week celebrations. Not that they're only for English Wine Week. English wines are for...

£20, Saddle Goose Wine On the face of it, the only thing this straw-yellow wine has in common with the red wine that occupied this slot...

£17.99, Majestic I don't know where I would have thought this was from if I was tasting it blind, but you can be pretty certain I...

I hadn't planned to do a Pinot Noir post to coincide with International Pinot Noir Day today, but it's a good opportunity to spread the...

As in part one, there's a cross-section of styles, grape varieties, origins and prices here and I'm going from high to low again, so that...

£17.99, Waitrose I scheduled this lovely Pinot for the Easter weekend when I tasted it back in January and it now coincides neatly with...

£29.99 (mix six), Majestic; £35, hushheath.com I'm posting early again this week to give you extra time to get this celebration-ready...

The first of the season's round-ups of recommendations is sparkling wines, from far and near but not Champagne – that gets its own show...

£14.99, Waitrose I've had to wait weeks for this unusual and delicious wine to be on the shelves before recommending it. It's now in...

You wait ages for a new vintage of an English sparkling Blanc de Blancs, then two come along at once: Nyetimber 2013 and Gusbourne 2014....

I first met Emma Rice when she was the editor of the second edition of my book Discovering Wine. She went on to become one of the UK's...

£29.95, Bluebell Vineyard Estates English Wine Week starts on Saturday. There's no guarantee of good weather, especially as there's a...

To celebrate English wine week, running from Saturday 27 May to Sunday 4 June, I've chosen some top quality, Champagne-style sparkling...

£12.85, lymebayenglishwines.co.uk; £12.99, waitrosecellar.com England’s sparkling wines crowd the headlines, but the best still wines...

£22.99, D Byrne; £27.99, Corks Out, corksout.com English wine week starts on Saturday – a great opportunity to visit an English vineyard...