London's first Italian wine specialist opens
London’s first specialist Italian wine merchant has opened with the biggest selection of Italian wines in the country.
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.
London’s first specialist Italian wine merchant has opened with the biggest selection of Italian wines in the country.
Relations between Jacopo Biondi Santi and his father have eased, but there is still a wide rift between them, the scion of one of Tuscany’s legendary houses tells Decanter.
The ‘uncluttered and cliché-free’ Zucca in London’s Bermondsey is the Decanter/Laurent Perrier Restaurant of the Year.
Fine wine prices in 2011 showed their most dramatic fall since 2008 – with some values dropping by nearly half.
Giulio Gambelli, one of the giants of Tuscan wine, has died at the age of 86.
The best wine to go with turkey is Burgundy – but not Pinot Noir, a Decanter panel has decided.
The Institute of Masters of Wine has instigated a formal investigation into the conduct of Pancho Campo MW and his organisation of tastings in Spain for the Wine Advocate.
A British estate agent has become one of the first in the UK to market a substantial parcel of land purely on its potential as vineland.
Gina Gallo and Jean-Charles Boisset have bought the former Mondavi house in Napa, according to reports.
Wine sales are still falling in the UK high street – and the pace of decline is accelerating, the latest research says.
Sales of English wine - both sparkling and still - have boomed over the last year, London wine merchant Berry Bros and Rudd says.
Robert Parker has called Pancho Campo a 'lightning rod' for controversy as he announced a 'totally transparent' legal investigation into the series of accusations of cash for tasting that have dominated the wine headlines for the past weeks.
A new survey shows it is the smallest and largest New Zealand wineries that have shown the most growth in 2011 - while the country's UK chief is calling on wineries to be 'more confident' on pricing.
The Wine Society has announced that Tim Sykes will replace Sebastian Payne MW in the role of head of buying.
Jay Miller had planned to step down from his post at the Wine Advocate months before the 'Cash for Tastings' controversy emerged, says his former Wine Advocate colleague.
Jay Miller has resigned from the Wine Advocate.
Anthony Barton of Chateau Leoville-Barton has vigorously defended his pricing policy, saying he will not make ‘investment wines’ like many of his neighbours.
The Chinese market is maturing at a faster rate than the US market for fine wine did in the 1980s, auctioneer Richard Brierley says.
The UK wine trade should promote biodynamic and organic wines, a debate in London decided last night.
Decanter has published the results of its first-ever panel tasting of grower Champagnes – and the results are extremely positive.
Margaret River has suffered no vine damage due to the bushfires, the Margaret River Wine Industry Association has said in an open letter.
Accolade Wines is committed to developing the market for lower-alcohol wine - and to ‘unlocking’ the potential of Moscato in the UK.
The restaurant at the Yeatman in Oporto has won its first Michelin star a year after opening.
Scientists in Australia have sequenced the Brettanomyces genome – a breakthrough that will ‘future-proof’ the industry against spoilage by the yeast organism known as brett.
Wineries have been evacuated and vines lost in devastating bush fires that are sweeping the Margaret River region in Western Australia.
The average price of a bottle of wine in the UK will go above £5 next year, new research carried out by Accolade Wines suggests.
Barbara Banke, the widow of California 'titan' Jess Jackson, is overseeing the launch of her three top cuveés in the UK.
The 151st Hospices de Beaune auction took a higher total than last year – but prices were down overall.
Marques de Murrieta, one of Spain's most renowned estates, is completing a €20m renovation project that has involved tearing down and rebuilding the entire bodega.
The organic and biodynamic winemaking lobby uses 'emotional black magic' to get its message across, a prominent consultant will argue in a debate next month.