Plus the Gérard Basset Foundation’s latest grantees, awarded as part of its mandate to fund educational and professional programmes focused on providing accessibility to people from disadvantaged ...

Good value, reliable reds and whites.

Wines of charm and drinkability from a challenging vintage. Come back tomorrow for Walter’s tasting notes. Above, the view from Montalcino town towards the south. Vintage 2020 in Brunello di ...

An annual tradition and one heck of a lot of work! A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Above, four generations of the Bousquet family at Château Grand Moulin in Corbières, ...

Unexpected, excellent and affordable, Austria’s sparkling wines are worth stocking up on. Above, bottles resting in the cellar of Weingut Loimer (credit: Andreas Hofer). The champagne buckets beckoned ...

I've put these common tasting terms for aromas into groups, but their real use, I hope, is to help you when blind tasting. (If a mature red wine smells strongly of strawberries, for example, chances ...

Blends have the advantage in this vintage, though Walter has uncovered the best of the single-vineyard and selezione wines, too. Come back tomorrow for his reviews of the 2019 Riservas and a few late ...

A ton of great, ready-to-enjoy Côtes du Rhône reds here, as well as some structured, ageworthy cru wines. See this guide for all our extensive coverage of the 2023 vintage in the Rhône Valley. Across ...

Don't pour that ancient bottle of wine down the sink! Some of the corks from an evening described below that proved why. Left ...

Not the Singapore skyline this month, but that of Shanghai, where many of the Chinese wines below were tasted. November started with a 48-hour trip to Shanghai, where a collection of Chinese producers ...

Time for another collection of the Portuguese wines that have crossed Julia’s palate over the last five months or so: sparkling, white, rosé and a few fortified wines. The reds will follow tomorrow.

A sparkling wine for pizza, parmesan, prosciutto, salami and gnocco fritto, and a whole lot more if you choose carefully. Julia leads the way. Pictured above, La Piana vineyards and winery in ...