The 2021 vintage in Bordeaux may have had its challenges, but the... Read more

There is little need for me to provide a recap of the... Read more

One of my regrets is that I couldn’t keep my wine merchant... Read more

When is it time to drink a vintage, and when should we... Read more

As fall advanced, I stood in a vineyard on the low slopes... Read more

Andrew Jefford is inspired by a single bottle of Thomas Bachelder 2018 ... Read more

Andrew Jefford is inspired by a single bottle of Pepe Raventós 2010... Read more

Looking for the poetry in wine, I’ve tended to overlook the wine... Read more

It’s a question I’m always being asked: Where will the next classic... Read more

Andrew Jefford (WFW 72, pp.132–37) deems what he terms “wine’s transactional flaw”... Read more

To write a paean in praise of alcohol in relation to wine... Read more

The artistic elite of the Western world has always looked kindly, not... Read more

Tim James explores the pleasing profusion of materials and shapes in modern... Read more

Here’s a shock, in a glass. A step out on deck in... Read more

The scourge of “appellationism” has already been treated in this series of... Read more

Steven Spurrier disappeared from the wine world, and from this vale of... Read more

An eminent wine writer emailed the Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships... Read more

I have never walked the long roads to Santiago de Compostela, and... Read more

When it comes to typicity in wine, it's increasingly hard to make... Read more

Tom Stevenson on the complex processes involved in the application of liqueur... Read more

Le côté obscur means “the dark side.” Darkness, in these rancorous times,... Read more

  It was probably Jack Davies at Schramsberg who told me there... Read more

The Oxford Companion to Wine ventures a trenchant opinion  on the quality... Read more

For many years, I did not always make myself popular by repeating... Read more

In a packed Carnegie Hall, just two days before New York City... Read more

This might surprise a few people, but the reductive style of sparkling... Read more

My experience with Sir Roger Scruton started—as most philosophical journeys do— with... Read more

Reflections on Denis Durantou and the wines from his final vintage Is... Read more

What is the latest thinking on the potentially damaging effects of light... Read more

  While 2020 will undoubtedly go down in history as the year... Read more