Top 50 Italian Wines – Classifica 2015
by Tim Atkin
Giuseppe Mascarello e Figlio – Monprivato Barolo DOCG 2010 – Piemonte Giuseppe Rinaldi – Brunate Barolo DOCG 2011 – Piemonte Duemani – Duemani Costa Toscana – IGP Cabernet Franc 2012...
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The Great South African Syrah Tasting
by Tim Atkin
How good is South African Syrah? There are several people (me included) who believe that it’s the red grape best suited to the Cape’s range of soils and climates, but...
Heavy bottles
by Robert Joseph
“Jancis [Robinson] hates heavy wine bottles, as I do. Why do winemakers use them?” This recent Facebook comment – by one of the founders of a smart London wine retailer...
Keith Waterhouse and the wine bars of London
by Henry Jeffreys
If any man deserved the epithet, a legend in his own lunchtime, it was Keith Waterhouse. You probably remember him for his plays Billy Liar, made into a film with...
Bordeaux 2009 revisited: plush, lush, but no shoe-in
by Sarah Abbott MW
The annual Bordeaux tasting by the Institute of Masters of Wine brings together 100 or so of the best wines of Bordeaux four years after the vintage. Most of the...
Losing wood: the death of the barrel
by Robert Joseph
The ISPB – International Society for the Protection of Birds – announced yesterday that it was supporting the “Get Wood” campaign recently launched by France’s leading barrel-making organisation FAT –...
Château Oublié and the fall of the 1855 Classification
by Robert Joseph
To understand how, in 2014, one man with a grudge managed to bring down some of the highest and mightiest in Bordeaux, you have to know a little about the...
The Pulitzer Prize for Wine Reviews
by Ron Washam
Though it has yet to gain the kind of attention its other prizes have achieved, the Pulitzer Prize for Wine Reviews was handed out for the first time in 2013....
Golden Burgundies and funny money
by Robert Joseph
Chapter One It all began so simply. In London, one day in January 2014, the wine writers Tom Nutkin, Albert Joshua and the superstar German winemaker Dr Titan were having...
Fruits, newts and cutes
by Robert Joseph
In the Wine And Novelty Corp. boardroom, the atmosphere was tense. Behind Warner Biggereturne III, the company president, the chart on the electronic whiteboard said it all: wine division sales...
In a parallel universe
by Robert Joseph
In a parallel universe 1 (in which there is an Empress of Wine.) The most influential voice in the parallel wine world is Roberta Parker who regularly appears on television demonstrating...
Better Off Dead—New Wine Books!
by Ron Washam
Lately, my mailbox has been filling up with new books about wine and the wine business. It’s a seemingly inexhaustible subject, and the flurry of new books represents a wide...