El Celler de Can Roca leads Spanish triumph in restaurant awards
Girona’s El Celler de Can Roca has knocked Copenhagen’s Noma off the top spot as the World’s Best Restaurant.
Adam Lechmere is consultant editor of Club Oenologique among other things.
Formerly launch editor of Decanter.com, which he edited until 2011, he has been writing about wine for 20 years, contributing to Decanter, World of Fine Wine, Meininger’s, the Guardian and many others. Before joining the wine world he worked for the BBC, and as a music and film gossip journalist.
Girona’s El Celler de Can Roca has knocked Copenhagen’s Noma off the top spot as the World’s Best Restaurant.
Chateau Lafite Rothschild has released what it calls 'the most affordable Lafite on the market' with its 2012 vintage, at €330 ex-Bordeaux.
Children born to women who drink moderately during pregnancy are no more likely to have cognitive or behavioural problems than those of abstainers, a new study has found.
Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate and its former correspondent Antonio Galloni have settled their dispute out of court.
Bordeaux negociants say they are ‘serene’ about the quality of 2012, but most agree that it will severely affect the saleability of the 2011 vintage – for the time being.
After years of litigation, multiple failed cases and endless court appearances, billionaire William Koch has claimed the first scalp in his war on what he calls ‘wine fakers’.
Franco Biondi Santi, grandson of one of the great pioneers of Brunello di Montalcino, has died aged 91.
Loic Avril of Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck has been named 2013 Young Sommelier of the Year.
Fine wine exchange Liv-ex has recalculated the 1855 Classification with its price-based ranking of the Bordeaux classed growths, an exercise it last did in 2011.
The long-awaited court case between billionaire collector William Koch and California collector Eric Greenberg has finally started a day late.
'Brittle' and 'lots of make-up' were two of the comments from critics as London had its first look at the 2012 vintage from Bordeaux’s Right Bank properties.
Berry Bros and Rudd has announced it is the first major UK retailer to give Chinese wines a permanent place on its shelves.
Premiere Napa Valley, the annual barrel auction that has become one of the biggest events in the California wine calendar, took a total of US$3.04m on Saturday, just shy of last year's record.
Investment safeguards put in place by the Wine Investment Association and the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau should ‘go global’, a WIA director has said.
The UK drinks industry should brace itself for more consolidations, mergers and failures in 2013, the former managing director of collapsed drinks company Waverley TBS has said.
With 'a stable platform' now in the UK, the Union Viticole du Liban, the country's wine trade body, says it is switching its focus to Germany.
Burgundy's Domaine de la Romanee-Conti has released its 2010 vintage – a year which owner Aubert de Villaine described as 'Homeric'.
Mark Driver, owner of England’s largest single-vineyard wine estate, intends to export at least 50% of his production when the estate is at its capacity of 1m bottles.
Burgundy 2011 is seductive, the best whites ‘pure and willowy’, the reds lively and charming, Jeannie Cho Lee MW says in her summing up of the vintage for Decanter.
Dom Perignon has launched its 2002 Rosé – a wine produced in conditions described by chef de cave Richard Geoffroy this week as ‘unexpectedly perfect.’
Florida’s Naples Winter Wine Festival last weekend took a total of US$8.6m – a third less than last year and half the auction’s peak takings of 2007.
ExCellar, the wine retail chain owned by ex-Oddbins boss Simon Baile, has gone into administration.
Wines of South Africa has condemned the Guardian newspaper's poll on a South African wine boycott as 'unfair'and 'damaging'.
South African wineries continue to insist the farmworkers' strikes have nothing to do with them, despite repeated union calls for further strikes and boycotts.
As unrest returns to South African vineland, Wines of South Africa says the wine industry is not at present involved.
Berry Bros and Rudd has launched Jasper Morris MW's definitive Inside Burgundy on iPad – the first wine book to use Apple's iBooks Author programme.
After six years of court battles Portuguese wine company Sogrape is now back under control of its founding family.
Chateau Mouton Rothschild has unveiled a wine label designed by controversial modernist artist Jeff Koons for its 2010 vintage.
A bottle of pre-Revolutionary Cognac fetched more than four times its estimate at Christie's yesterday.
A source close to the deal that Robert Parker has struck with a group of Singapore businessmen to sell Wine Advocate have confirmed the main shareholder is Soo Hoo Khoon Peng, formerly of wine importers Hermitage.