There are no great wines, only great bottles. This maxim, highlighting how much individual bottles of the same wine can vary, was brought home forcibly to us 21 tasters at this year’s 10 Years On ...

Two wines to conjure up spring. Flower Girl Albariño 2025 from €20.95, $25.65, £23.95 and Big Flower Cabernet Franc 2024 from €17.50, $22.45 and £24.99. I’m not sure there are many winemakers in the ...

Among the 168 2016 bordeaux tasted blind over one and half days at Farr Vintners (minus the seven badly affected by TCA), the left-bank reds were notably more consistent than their right-bank ...

Two of us writers spoke up in favour of them, viewing them as a group offering rich right-bank pleasure, often at a relatively affordable price. But the merchants, their impressions perhaps coloured ...

The power of scent, and how to harness it to figure out what’s in your glass.

But wine dinners have been a singular aspect of life in the restaurant business for the past 50 years at least. They are the occasions when a restaurant will put on a dinner to highlight a particular ...

When Ferran Centelles mentioned that we would be in Barcelona he asked to join us for dinner. But whether it was our company ...

From a forest of wine glasses, a comprehensive exploration of Margaret River’s best bottles and their international competitors. Including a preview of some of the beauties being poured at our ...

Ferran and Jancis attempt to sum up the excitement of Spanish wine today in six glasses. A much shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. In the little puddle of life that ...

Like the Yarra Valley or the Mornington Peninsula, Gippsland – a huge region that stretches east all the way to the border ...

Chris Howard contemplates the precarious balance of water, weather and vines in France’s Languedoc.

This legal challenge, VOS Selections, Inc v Trump was brought by a small New York wine importer. It is a massive victory for the wine industry. US importers who have struggled to pay tariffs for the ...