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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 impressionsA 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 consultantWhat does it take to become one?...
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The power of music: How Brahms might make your wine taste betterCan 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 BordeauxJane 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’ guideA 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...
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Climate change: rethinking your drinkingWinemaking has an impact on the environment – that’s inarguable. Efforts to lessen that impact have begun across the industry, but what can the concerned consumer do? Rupert Joy finds out.
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Peter Richards MW: ‘Now is a good time to be a wine drinker in the UK’The UK wine industry has faced challenges, on multiple fronts, in the past year. The sector has reacted with creativity, adaptability and, Peter Richards MW argues, this is a particularly exciting period to be a wine consumer on British shores.
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Andrew Jefford: ‘Stories should cling to wine like mussels to rope’Is the way wine brands communicate too stiff and dull? Often, but with notable exceptions. Andrew Jefford argues wine should lower its brow and embrace a natural affinity with people, places and stories.
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Vinocalypse now: the quest for uniqueness in California'Building greater complexity through extreme genetic diversity...'
