As a country mouse, I try to avoid spending evenings in London these days for a few reasons…. the lights became a little too bright for me a couple of years ago

In this month’s Decanter Tom Maresca tastes through the 2005 Barolos and concludes this is a fruit-forward vintage. The 2005 is classic in style

Last week I had the huge fortune to be invited by Louis Roederer to visit their estate, Ramos Pinto, in the Douro Valley, Northern Portugal. Having never been to the Douro before, yet sold quite a bit of port

There are many excellent wine writers out there, earning an honest crust by the skill of their palate and pen. There are very few wine writers who actually make me laugh.

Perhaps I wasn’t concentrating hard enough at wine school, but I never really understood how the bubbles in Champagne worked. There always seemed a little bit of alchemy in there somewhere.