Bien Boire (‘drinking well’) en Beaujolais is more fun than Bordeaux’s primeurs and offers plenty of excellent wines, reports ...

Pleasant surprises from a torrid year. Above, Alessandro Campatelli, director and oenologist (and now owner) at Riecine, made ...

There are two books on Japan wine tucked into my bookshelf: a Classic ...

The sleeper hit of Napa winery Pine Ridge, first made by founder Gary Andrus 30 years ago, this Chenin Blanc/Viognier blend ...

Natasha graduated as a Master of Wine in 2014, winning four out of the seven prizes awarded that year, including the Outstanding Achievement Award. Her career as a wine writer began by accident, when ...

Continuing our way up California’s west coast, by the time we’ve reached the Santa Cruz Mountains, a new muddle of fault ...

A close look at three of Zaragoza’s most important projects. Above, Fernando Mora MW (left) and Mario López of Bodegas ...

Reasons to drink more Riesling; best buys; and far-flung finds – highlights from a month of tastings. Above, Mount Ararat in ...

Inspired by Sam’s Mission Blind Tasting series, I signed up for a tasting called ‘ Burgundy or Bust ’, which asked a simple ...

On the morning of Monday 11 May 1953 the handful of candidates then were asked to sit Paper IA on ‘Cultivation of the vine’ ...

Even for the fairly ardent wine lover, Switzerland retains an air of terra incognita. We’ve heard rumours that the Swiss make ...

Below is a rough guide to what our numbers mean. Although we are not very comfortable with scoring wines because it is so difficult to encapsulate a wine's qualities in a single score, we do realise ...