When bloggers become wine retailers
by Matt Walls
It used to be easy. Not so long ago, the UK wine landscape could be mapped on three points of a triangle: those who sold the wine (aka the industry...
Topic: Blog
My top ten wine and travel destinations
by Tim Atkin
THE MOSEL VALLEY (Germany) Why should you visit? To taste the sublime Rieslings – regarded by many experts as the world’s best white grape – and to marvel at thier featherweight balance....
My top 50 Argentine wines 2012
by Tim Atkin
These are 50 of my favourite Argentine wines, shown at a tasting in London yesterday and selected from an extensive report to be published next month. To explain the way...
They spelled my name wrong again
by Ronald Atkin
Ron Atkin (not Atkins) That great American humourist and songwriter Loudon Wainwright III once wrote an hilarious ditty titled “They Spelled My Name Wrong Again”. At the Croydon concert I...
Tasting the Top 100 South African wines
by Tim Atkin
St James: home of Top 100 SA Wines I’ve just got back from the Cape, where I’ve been judging some of South Africa’s best wines for a competition called Top...
Hitchin, mon amour
by Tim Atkin
Hitching in Hitchin Travelling in Burgundy earlier this year, I came across a sign outside the town of Nuits St Georges. “Jumelée avec Hitchin”, it proclaimed. It all seemed rather...
The Chancellor prepares to clobber wine drinkers (again)
by Tim Atkin
The Palace of Westminster Tomorrow is budget day in the UK. Like the Grand National, the Baftas or the last night of the Proms, it’s something of a national ritual....
Is this the best value Pinot in the world?
by Tim Atkin
Germany? Are you sure? Drinkable cheap Pinot Noir is almost an oxymoron. We Pinotphiles are all too aware that we need to pay over the odds to get a fix...
Drinkers versus investors
by Tim Atkin
Listening to people discussing their claret portfolios has become as boring as the house price conversations we Brits used to have to endure in the 1990s. For “I bought this...
Beards, wine and biodynamism
by Tim Atkin
Pierre Weindel of Domaine de la Tour des Vidaux I was keeping my eyes out for deer’s bladders in the rafters or even the odd cow horn, but it was...
Reviewing Platter
by Tim Atkin
Earls Court It was flattering that the team from South Africa’s respected Platter Guide chose to announce their latest 5 Star awards at the Cape Wine Europe tasting in London...
Au revoir, Monsieur Dubosc
by Tim Atkin
It’s hard to imagine the Cave de Plaimont, one of the most forward thinking co-operatives in France, without André Dubosc. He’s been associated with the Gascon operation since 1972, first...