Opinion

Why Gioia del Colle is Italy's best region for Primitivo you need to know about

Think all Primitivo is jammy? Think again...

Why the hate for sweet wines?

Examining the overlooked delights...

Walls: The best wines to buy from Gigondas in 2022

Here are the wines to try from an extreme vintage...

Andrew Jefford: ‘1975: the wine world was about to blossom like a cherry tree’

Andrew Jefford reflects on 50 years of wine...

Italy's mission to preserve its wine culture

Addressing the wine industry's most critical challenges...

Laura Taylor: ‘We need to change the wine-collecting rhetoric’

Where are all the women wine collectors..?

Postcard from the boulevards: Moving from London to Paris has shown me which is the real wine capital

Which is the real wine capital?...

Walls' hidden gems: The delicious originality of Château Boucarut

Vibrant and drinkable wines from Lirac and Tavel...

Hugh Johnson: ‘Among wine lovers the goal should be simply appreciation’

Hugh Johnson looks back to the birth of Decanter...

Pursehouse: Cool climate is the future of wine

Stay cool...

Katherine Cole: When wine met tariffs, history rarely went according to plan

Katherine Cole on wine tariffs...

Who even is 'the sommelier'?

Has the term's meaning been muddied..?

Baudains: Montalcino's quiet revolution

Brunello's younger sibling is stepping out from the shade...

Walls: Rhône reds lighten up

A trend towards paler reds...

Joel Stein: ‘Show up to that dinner with a 3-litre of anything and you are Dionysus’

What size bottle should you take to a dinner party...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Clairette is the brother of Grenache, and the perfect variety for revealing terroir here’

Andrew Jefford on the Clairette grape variety...

Walls: Exceptional single-vineyard Côte-Rôtie from Benjamin & David Duclaux

Eliza Dumais: From rosé all day, to no way rosé. Has pink wine lost its lustre?

Rosé, just not all day...

Baudains: ‘Natural wines don’t stink’, part 2

A further dive into the world of low intervention...

Walls: The joy of sand

With 11 wines from sandy soils...

Andrew Jefford: ‘We face three challenges: lack of rain, manpower and tourism’

Jefford talks to Yiannis Paraskevopoulos about the struggles Santorini faces in winemaking...