Limited edition Champagne for house's 200th birthday...
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New Zealand wines to try: Beyond Sauvignon
Branch out with your choices...
Tasting Gallica: Elegant Napa Cabernet
Try a different take on Napa Cabernet...
Taylor’s 325th anniversary Port sails into London
Tina Gellie reports and taste the new wine...
Okanagan Crush Pad, Haywire Free Form White, Okanagan Valley 2014
So many good wines from Matt Dumayne (and consultant Alberto Antonini), but this 100% Sauvignon Blanc is very exciting, made naturally in stainless steel with five months' skin contact...
Le Vieux Pin, Cuvée Violette Syrah, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia 2014
Co-fermented with 1% Roussanne, this ripe, spicy and red-fruited Syrah is lifted and elegant in a Côte-Rôte style...
Painted Rock, Cabernet Franc, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia 2013
A delicious, bristling example of Cabernet Franc – the inaugural release – showing lively acidity allied to a concentrated, complex palate of mulberries, pomegranate, pencil lead and bay leaf...
Tantalus, Old Vine Riesling, Okanagan Valley 2013
From 1978 planted vines farmed sustainably. Powerful, taut and concentrated kombucha tea, grapefruit and wet stones on a dry, textural, weighty palate...
Kaapzicht, Steytler Pinotage, Bottelary 2012
The Steytler family have been winemakers in the Cape for four generations and this eponymous range (made by Danie Steytler) represents the best wines from the estate made only in…
Robert Oatley, Finisterre Riesling, Great Southern, 2014
Outside South Australia's Clare and Eden Valleys, Great Southern is one of Australia's leading Riesling regions...
La Violetta, Yé-Yé Blanc, Great Southern, Western Australia 2015
Apparently winemaker Andrew Hoadley named this wine after what you'd exclaim joyfully after one sip. Fronted by Riesling's soft yet tart juiciness and bright acidity, there's lovely mounthfeel, florality and…
Cullen Wines, Mangan East Block, Margaret River, Western Australia 2013
Wine lovers will know Vanya Cullen's Diana Madeleine Bordeaux blend, named after her mother, but here's something a little different...
Mazza, Bastardo Rosé, Geographe, Western Australia 2014
Forget the ugly name, this is a beautiful wine! Traditionally used in Port blends, the Douro variety of Bastardo has very low tannins making it perfect for rosé...
Famille Perrin, Les Cornuds, Vinsobres, Rhône 2014
From the always reliable Rhône winemaking family behind Château de Beaucastel comes this lovely Vinsobres – an appellation 40km north of Châteauneuf-du-Pape...
Château Dasvin Bel Air, Haut-Médoc, Bordeaux 2012
This Cru Bourgeois estate produces about 100,000 bottles a year from its 17 hectares of mainly Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot on gravel soils in the Haut-Médoc...
Domaine Grand Veneur, Les Champauvins, Côtes du Rhône 2013
This 34 hectare biodynamic vineyard was sadly the wrong side of the track – just three metres – when the appellation of Châteauneuf-du-Pape was created in 1936...
Kleine Zalze, Cellar Selection Cinsault, Coastal Region 2014
From dry-grown vineyards in Paardeberg and Darling, this is an unoaked, fresh and pure example of an increasingly popular variety seen mainly as a blending partner in Swartland reds...
Esk Valley, Verdelho, Gimblett Gravels, Hawke’s Bay 2015
Esk Valley is New Zealand's Verdelho pioneer, planting the Omahu Gravels vineyard in the Gimblett Gravels sub-region in 1998...
Cheese and wine: the ultimate guide
Hard, soft, blue, goat? Which cheeses do you choose, and do you pick a wine for each or try to find one that matches everything? Tina Gellie sat down with…
Colombo & Fille, Côtes du Rhône Blanc 2014
A boutique, limited-production label from Laure Columbo, the 'fille' of father Jean-Luc...
Yabby Lake, Block 6 Chardonnay, Mornington Peninsula 2013
A superb wine from a vintage not as fêted as 2010 or 2012 but by a producer that's one of the region's best and most consistent – as is its…
Jean-Luc Colombo, Les Abeilles Rouge, Côtes du Rhône 2014
The Colombo family base is in Cornas but this fresh, Grenache-dominant wine is from neighbouring vineyards in Cairanne, Rasteau and Vacqueyras...
Domaine Lapierre, Raisins Gauloises, Vin de France 2015
This is just a joy to drink – simple and uncomplicated but full of vital cherry, cranberry and raspberry, dusty fruit tannins and lively acidity to keep your palate wanting
Insider guide to Champagne Salon & Delamotte
Tina Gellie reports from a Decanter Fine Wine Encounter masterclass
Domaine Grand Veneur, Le Miocène, Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc, Rhône 2014
White Châteauneuf is not that common, and if you can find this you'll shock your friends in a blind tasting when they think it is white Burgundy...
Domaine Lapierre, Morgon, Beaujolais, Burgundy 2014
Always a name to trust in Beaujolais, the organically farmed Domaine Marcel Lapierre is now run by daughter Camille and son Matthieu...
Villiera, Jasmine, Stellenbosch 2015
Villiera, known for its Méthode Cap Classique sparkling wines, has here created an off-dry white ideally suited to go with spicy Asian or fusion food...
Larry Cherubino, Apostrophe Stone’s Throw, Western Australia 2015
Stone's Throw here refers to the short distance between the Riesling and Gewurztraminer vineyards across the Great Southern that provide the bulk of the fruit for this easy, juicy white...
Jean-Luc Colombo, Les Collines de Laure Blanc, IGP Méditerranée 2015
This is a lovely fusion of regions where the Provençal grape Rolle (aka Vermentino) joins three Rhône varieties in a textured, weighty yet elegant white...
Domaine des Valanges, St-Véran, Burgundy 2015
This Mâconnais domaine was founded by Michel and Jocelyne Paquet, who have built their vineyeard holdings over the past 35 years to 11 hectares, 8 of which are in St-Véran...