This is a selection from a tasting of 48 samples in mini bottles, as you can see above, hosted virtually by the eight Wine Society...

I hardly need say that the past year isn't going to go down in history as very celebratory and that 2021 is looking shaky, but I don't...

I've tasted far and wide to pick white wines and rosés from a dozen countries to fill your glasses with festive cheer during this...

It may be a festive season unlike any other, but we'll still need wine of all sorts –perhaps more than ever. The first of my 2020...

Another summer, another round-up of delicious dry rosés, plus a featherweight, lightly sparkling sweet wine from Italy and a pink...

£9.74, Majestic I shall be posting this summer’s rosé round-up soon, but another pink as Wine of the Week is well overdue, so here it is:...

£7 (on offer), Co-op A pale, dry, easygoing rosé that should be a dream for anyone who loves both Provence rosé and Rioja. It's light on...

£11.99 on offer, Ocado This is an obvious choice if you're celebrating Chinese New Year next week, but it's so much more than that: a...

Writing my annual Festive Champagne Guide is, as you can imagine, no hardship, not least because I have tasted everything in it recently....

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...

£15.80–£21.99, Frazier's Wine, Slurp, Field & Fawcett, Flagship Wines, Ocado, NY Wines, Amazon, Selfridges I can’t think of a better or...

I've never seen so many good rosé wines and so much variety of style, origin and grape variety (never mind colour) as I've seen this...

£12/£10.80, The Daily Drinker Who can resist a wine this colour? The prettiest of orangey salmon-pinks, and a mouthwatering taste to...

£10.95, Great Western Wine It hasn’t been feeling much like classic rosé-drinking weather where I’ve been recently (London and southwest...

We're there: my Champagne picks for Christmas, New Year and every other kind of festivity, whittled down with difficulty to what I hope...

17 December: I've updated this post (first published on 3 December) with the addition of two more English wines: Denbies Cubitt Blanc de...

The tasting of the first two vintages, 1995 and 1996, of Roederer's ultrarare Cristal Vinothèque When Louis Roederer released the first...

As I said in my Around the world in rosé blog, I'm a great admirer of the wines from Sacha Lichine's d'Esclans estate in Côtes de...

Alphonse Mellot Le Paradis Sancerre Rosé 2017, France Ravishing Pinot Noir rosé from one of Sancerre's great wine families. Long, slow...

£10.95–£13.99, The Wine Society, Exel Wines, The Black Dog Wine Co (UK), Averys of Bristol The McKinlay family's Loubié rosé, is always...