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Aldo Fiordelli: ‘The east-facing vineyard absorbs the morning’s first sunlight’
Eastern exposure is more critical today than it was in the past...
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Andrew Jefford: ‘Rosé, for the time being, is a pretty babble’
Andrew Jefford on the language of rosé...
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Andrew Jefford: ‘Telling stories about terroir will lead us astray’
Andrew Jefford on why tales of terroir can be misleading...
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Andrew Jefford: ‘Can wine help us make sense of tragedy?’
Andrew Jefford reflects on recent events worldwide...
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Andrew Jefford: ‘Pinotism is a cult within the wine world. Why?’
Andrew Jefford on the stature of Pinot...
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Bordeaux 2021 En Primeur: first impressions
A first look at what to expect from the Bordeaux 2021 vintage...
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Andrew Jefford: ‘Macron’s own love of wine seems genuinely sincere’
Andrew Jefford on the president's appreciation...
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My life and job as a personal wine consultant
What does it take to become one?...
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The power of music: How Brahms might make your wine taste better
Can music enhance your experience of a wine?
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Andrew Jefford: ‘The wine world has some dangerously alluring myths’
Andrew Jefford on four wine world myths and why they don't hold...
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Andrew Jefford: ‘Arresting and generous, but without vulgarity or excess’
It’s unlucky for Languedoc that its appellations stretch from east to west rather than north to south...
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Anson: Liber Pater wine and the rush for rare grapes in Bordeaux
Jane Anson visits the estate behind the 'most expensive wine in Bordeaux'...
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Andrew Jefford: ‘The gifts of Bacchus hold our gaze like a procession’
Andrew Jefford explores how markets define the scope of growers creative efforts by what they reward or sanction and how, when markets are neglectful and unresponsive, there's little the grower can do but conform.
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Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’
Andrew Jefford looks back at a year tainted by awful weather, causing havoc for winemakers cross the world, with none suffering more horribly than the growers of Germany's Ahr Valley.
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Column: Christmas Day drinks – a ‘real-world’ guide
A light-hearted take on your Christmas day running order...
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Andrew Jefford: ‘A wine’s visual cues shout, stamp, whistle and roar’
Might our palate be conditioned by visual cues and cultural constructs? Andrew Jefford argues that tasting is a synesthetic experience greatly affected by assumptions and expectations - which even the shape of a bottle can alter.
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Hugh Johnson: ‘What can irritate me is change for change’s sake’
Hugh Johnson's latest column on the wine world...
