I never fail to be amazed at how many wineries I come across in Platter that I've never heard of (okay, so I never read it from front to back) but somewhere along the way, surely at least all the names should ring a bell?Read more

Portuguese grapes don’t seem to have travelled as far and as widely as those from France, Spain and Italy – the other large wine producing countries in Europe.Read more

Champagne - like in the real French stuff - is a remarkable construct. (And, on the shop shelf, more often than not, an astounding example of outrageously overpriced marketing chutzpah.)Read more

A smattering of news for those who like to hear about winemaker moves – this one involuntary from the winemaker’s point of view, or so I believe. After just a year or two, Chris Kelly is leaving DelaireRead more

In an endeavour to respond to criticism that they weren’t making enough of an effort for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1855, the Bordeaux authorities created a wine map of the Medoc which indicated the best estates and their locations.Read more