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We’ve all been there. You’re thumbing through the wine menu at a fancy restaurant, nodding sagely at the broad selection of bottles on offer with the full knowledge that you’ll...

They can match a multitude of foods, are easy to find, in-expensive, can be chilled yet with enough punch to push through any food that has been above the coals...

Cabernet Sauvignon is a firm favourite all over the word. Once the most widely-planted premium red grape of the 20th century, it was only surpassed by Merlot in the early...

Pinot Bianco seems an unlikely variety to be a local hero, but the results prove its superstar status in northeastern Italy, as Michael Garner explains... Spectacular vineyards should produce equally...

Lean, zippy styles may be the zeitgeist, but there are great terroirs all over the world which naturally produce wines that are rich, ripe, full and fine, says Andrew Jefford....

The oldest grape varieties in South America have been sidelined for the past hundred years, but a new generation is now reclaiming its lost winemaking heritage as Criolla varieties re-emerge...

Things change, even in stately Burgundy, and producers in the region are free to apply for a vineyard’s status to be upgraded, if the quality justifies it. But what are...