Somehow it is already the end of April, which means that – drumroll please – we have launched our 2025 wine writing competition (WWC25)! It also means that port houses are beginning to declare their ...

Telmo Rodriguez, who makes fine wine all over Spain, first realised eastern Galicia is a treasure trove of old vines in the 1990s. He laid the foundations of his Ladeiras do Xil Galician operation in ...

This is a red wine from Ribera del Duero, produced by Hermanos del Villar. See our expert review of the 2022 on ...

Having tasted cask samples of the wines, our man in Bordeaux reflects on this challenging vintage. Come back next week for ...

One of the most impressive ranges of wines was from a producer well outside France, Vino Gross of Slovenia, represented by ...

The last professional tasting I attended last year was a collection of Galician wines, mainly but not exclusively whites. It ...

How New Zealand's Indigeneous heritage enriches the country's wines. The maramataka, the Māori lunar seasonal calendar, is ...

Honke Tankuma Honten is expensive. According to its website, the 11-course menu is 33,000 yen (£175) per person. Kyoto is not ...

Gimblett Gravels in Hawke’s Bay was the first to do this, with the wines chosen impartially by Andrew Caillard MW, to be followed much more recently by Hawke’s Bay Chardonnays. And now, for the first ...

Julia writes While the 2023 vintage dominated this tasting of white, red, dry and not-so-dry wines, there were also plenty of ...

A while ago one the contributors to our Members’ forum noted a large gap in our tasting notes of one of Tuscany’s iconic ‘ ...

Wines from 'fanatical winemakers' (according to the associated tasting booklet), mainly but not exclusively French. Above, at ...