How to pick the best Sancerre wine
Producers to seek out and wines to buy...
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The Chenin Blanc renaissance?
How does Chenin Blanc from the Loire and South Africa compare?
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Investment uncertainty - Ask Decanter
How can you tell whether or not to trust a wine investment company...?
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From the archive: Dry Loire Chenin Blanc - panel tasting results
Drinking well now and for the next 10 years...
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Top Loire Cabernet Franc: Panel tasting results
See our experts' favourite wines...
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Loire 2017 harvest shows mixed fortunes after frost
Read Jim Budd's early report on Loire 2017...
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UK police raid uncovers thousands of suspected stolen wines
UK police raid uncovers possible wine crime ring...
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Wine firm Montevino Partners Ltd collapses with million-pound debts
One investor paid £76,000 for Barolo that never arrived...
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Muscadet wines: Time to think again - panel tasting results
Wines with 17 months' minimum lees ageing have blown all expectations out of the water...
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Loire 2017 vintage in trouble after frost, say winemakers
Some wines may be hard to find...
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Banned director admits 300,000 pound wine fraud
Jonothan Piper to be sentenced next month...
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Frost causes heavy losses in Loire vineyards
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Westminster Fine Wines Ltd: Director banned for 12 years
The sole director and shareholder of Westminster Fine Wines Ltd has been banned from acting as a UK director...
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Top Loire Cabernet Franc wines
Six top wines to try....
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‘Pernicious’ Prestige Fine Wine Ltd shut in public interest
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Loire producer Bouvet Ladubay returns to family control
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Loire winemaker Claude Lafond dies
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Capital Bordeaux Investments director gets 11 year ban
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Wine fraud: banned director jailed after million pound con
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Wine fraud: Ex-director guilty of million pound con
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Loire wine producers barred from using Vouvray name
Leading Loire winemakers François Chidaine and Jacky Blot have been banned from vinifying their Vouvray wines in the neighbouring commune of Montlouis.
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Wine investment firm APW Asset Management Ltd closed in public interest
UK firm APW Asset Management Ltd (APW), which sold Australian wines for investment and capital growth using high-pressure sales tactics, was wound up by the High Court in Manchester on 25 March.
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1855.com and president fined by French financial watchdog
France's financial markets authority has fined collapsed wine investment firm Heracles, previously called 1855.com, and its president a total of 350,000 euros for misleading investors.
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Critic 'Champagne Jayne' facing fresh court battle over name
A trademark dispute between France's Champagne trade body and the critic known as 'Champagne Jayne' is set to return to court after the two failed to agree a settlement.
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Biodynamic winemaker Joly to cut ties with Loire body
Loire Valley winemaker Nicolas Joly has said he will withdraw his vineyard of the La Coulee de Serrant from the region's wine trade body after accusing the group of failing to respect organic and biodynamic wine producers.
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Fraudsters target victims of collapsed wine investment firm
Consumers owed money and wine by collapsed European Fine Wines Ltd in the UK have been targeted by fraudsters posing as both the company’s directors and its liquidator, while London's High Court has ordered another wine investment group to be wound up.
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French court places 1855.com in liquidation
Troubled French online wine merchant Heracles, formerly 1855.com, has been forced into liquidation after a major investor withdrew support for its recovery plan.
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Champagne lawyers accuse critic 'Champagne Jayne' of trademark infringement
The wine critic and educator known as Champagne Jayne is due in court later this month after France’s Champagne trade body accused her of misleading the public.
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Vintage International Ltd director banned for wine investment scam
Ofosuhene Ofori-Duah, the sole director of wine investment firm Vintage International Ltd (Vintage), has been banned from being a UK company director for 9 years.
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Encarta Fine Wines Ltd enters liquidation
Wine investment company, Encarta Fine Wines Ltd, has gone into liquidation with sums due to creditors estimated at between £3.5 to £3.8 million.
