World Of Fine Wine

Sarah Marsh MW takes a terroir tour on the slopes of the volcano.

By Sarah Marsh MW

With the grand départ of the 2025 Tour de France just days away, Thierry Gaudillère looks back on the 2024…

A new English sparkling producer is thriving at higher altitude.

By Margaret Rand

Joanna Simon relishes a privileged first taste of the new Clos Champagne from Barons de Rothschild.

By Joanna Simon

A tasting of 89 2020 Brunello wines divided the panel.

Andrew Jefford introduces our coverage of the 2020 vintage.

By Andrew Jefford

What do artists' depictions of their own wine-drinking tell us about changing attitudes to alcohol over the centuries?

By Stuart Walton

In a vintage post from 2017, David Schildknecht takes an intellectual scalpel to a newly fashionable tasting term.

By David Schildknecht

Margaret Rand meets the Bordelais consultant winemaker whose work as a scientist transformed our understanding of wine faults.

By Margaret Rand

A new book tells the story of the “Lady of Yquem".

By Ch'ng Poh Tiong