Blends have the advantage in this vintage, though Walter has uncovered the best of the single-vineyard and selezione wines, ...

Vintage 2020 in Brunello di Montalcino veers towards a lighter, fresher style, but trumps 2018, a vintage it is often ...

From Muscadet to Chinon to Sancerre, this Loire Valley wine tasting shows off the region’s diversity, energy and talent – not ...

Julia writes As Jancis noted in her introduction to Bordeaux 2022 – right-bank reds, Merlot’s draft obituary has been firmly ...

These have not changed, of course. But what has is their importance to every restaurant’s trading pattern and profitability ...

A first look at the 2022s in bottle at the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux tasting in London. Come back tomorrow for ...

On the face of it the news isn’t good. In 2023, the Scotch Whisky Association export figures showed Scotch’s major markets in ...

In the grand tradition of stereotyping wine grapes, Chardonnay is said to be a winemaker’s grape, in that it can show a wide ...

Under market pressure, Umbria’s most important red-wine denomination is seeking to reinvent itself by making less tannic, ...

Plus a look at global wine production numbers, which have been increasingly affected by extreme weather events. Above, the village appellations of Vinzelles (in yellow), with three new premiers crus.

An annual tradition and one heck of a lot of work! A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Above, four ...