Superb wines from minutely defined plots thanks to a winemaker with no formal training (photo credit: Mike Smith).

Joséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse is the winemaker at St-Émilion's Château Beauséjour, taking the reins as co-director with Prisca ...

Howard Ripley’s en primeur tasting last month featured a good number of Grosse Gewächse (GGs), the top dry German wines ...

This brown spirit may be the best bargain in the drinks world right now says Henry Jeffreys, a former whisky retailer who's ...

If last month’s diary was a little short on action, this month’s is action-packed. Since I last wrote this diary I have, ...

There's no surfing in south-east France, but surfer/philosopher/wine writer Chris Howard finds many other reasons to visit ...

There's a nostalgic thread to many of this month's tasting notes, from long-standing friends such as Ken Forrester 's ...

Rome, which next year celebrates a Jubilee Year, expects to welcome 30 million visitors during 2025. Perhaps most of the ...

On 10 September, Verallia, the world’s third-largest glass-packaging manufacturer, began producing flint glass bottles with ...