Deluxe redux
by Tim Atkin
Serendipity is part of the pleasure of owning a wine cellar. Unless you’re the kind of person who keeps a log of every bottle that’s down there – I’m as...
Author: Tim Atkin
Blind Review of Jon Bonné’s “The New Wine Rules”
by Ron Washam
I wanted to read Jon Bonné’s latest wine book, “The New Wine Rules,” but I have a new rule myself. I don’t read books about wine rules. Books about wine...
What the Clos de Tart sale means for the future of Burgundy
by Tim Atkin
Remind me never to play poker against Frédéric Engerer. On Thursday evening last week, I was tasting at Domaine d’Eugénie in Vosne-Romanée with the CEO of Artémis Domaines and asked...
Wine clubs: what’s your tribe?
by Sarah Abbott MW
“I have a mind to join a club, and beat you over the head with it.” Groucho Marx As a child, I was often at my nan’s for the Methodist...
Semillon: the naked grape
by Tim Atkin
When I was younger, fitter and considerably trimmer than I am now, I took part (twice) in a wine trade version of The Full Monty for charity. The name of...
Wine is Just So Depressing
by Ron Washam
It’s just so hard to learn about wine. I try and I try, but, frankly, it’s depressing. Really depressing. I guess that’s just the way of the world right now....
Lidl takes the low road
by Tim Atkin
It was a familiar scenario. Offer Brits what seems like a bargain and they’ll form orderly queues at 6.30am on a Bank Holiday Monday. To be fair to those early...
The Emperor of Wine Donald Trump’s Guerrilla Guide to Wine
by Ron Washam
Wine is simple, folks. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. It’s simple. Believe me, I know simple. I married simple. Wine isn’t hard to understand. It isn’t hard to understand,...
Burgundy’s net benefits
by Tim Atkin
It’s squeaky bum time in Chablis at the moment. Grape growers all over the world consult weather forecasts on a regular basis, but in the Yonne it’s almost an obsession....
Parker in the Bardo
by Ron Washam
The Emperor of Wine was brooding. What had it all been for, he asked himself. The power, the points, the bluster. Now, nearly 70, the body breaking down like En...
Roll over leafroll?
by Tim Atkin
The vineyards of the Western Cape are at their most beautiful in the autumn, a variegated canvas of browns, reds, oranges and yellows. But those colours hide a secret that...
The Threat of Global Wine Terrorism
by Ron Washam
The threat of global terrorism has finally reached the wine business. Wineries, importers, sommeliers, wine writers— all have found themselves under siege from various loosely organized but determined groups of...