The 152nd Hospices de Beaune wine auction has announced record results, with Asian bidders becoming the second most important after those from Europe.
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Burgundy is facing up to its smallest harvest since the mid-1950s after the vineyards of the Côte d'Or suffered a mixture of frost, hail, mildew and poor flowering.
The coastal section of Chile's Valle de Aconcagua has become a new Denomination of Origin, on the back of Viña Errázuriz's long-standing quest to establish the region as a new viticultural zone.
Read more...The 28th Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Auction has set record-breaking figures with the highest turnover and a complete sellout of all wines.
Read more...Sicilian wines are a great match with the independent sector, but if you don't know your Nero d'Avola from your Nerello Mascalese then head to the Wines of Sicily tasting to find out more.
Read more...D&D London is to reopen a warehouse built by the East India Company to incorporate a modern British grill restaurant, cocktail bar, fish restaurant and a specialist wine shop.
Read more...The lower-alcohol wine category will reach a natural cap due to consumer reluctance to try lighter style products, new research has indicated.
Read more...The lower-alcohol wine category will reach a natural cap due to consumer reluctance to try lighter style products, new research has indicated.
Read more...Robert Parker has admitted that "did not supervise Jay Miller as effectively as I should have" over the scandal surrounding visits to Spanish wineries.
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Moët Hennessy has announced plans to produce a red wine in China.
Read more...Spanish co-operatives are going to find it difficult to cope with demand for their bulk wines this year, a leading brokerage company has warned.
Read more...The UK consumer is spending more per bottle and increasingly requesting lower alcohol wines, according to the first Wine Intelligence UK Independent Retailer Report.
Read more...In a bright, white gallery space on The Kings Road in Chelsea the annual Australia Day Wine Tasting took place last week. Amid the slurping and spitting, tasters who listened very carefully may have detected a rumbling; deep, subterranean, underground. It could have been a tube train passing below, or a low flying plane overhead. But it was neither of these. The rumbling you may have heard, over the clatter of bottles of Chardonnay and Shiraz, is the sound made as the tectonic plates of the Great Australian Wine Industry shift and rearrange themselves for the first time in a generation.
Read more...Winemakers around the world are noticing huge vintage variation thanks to changing weather patterns.
Read more...Emmanuel Charrier has been elected the new president of the regional trade body for the AOP wines of the Centre Loire vineyard, the BIVC.
Read more...Iconic wine brand Penfolds has appointed Gary Burnand as its managing director.
Read more...The emerging Ukrainian wine industry is looking to raise winemaking standards to European levels - by working with foreign consultants and setting up a professional wine body.
Last night, some of the UK's finest winos braved the November cold to come to Artisan & Vine in Clapham where Kathryn O'Mara welcomed them to the official launch of "Authentic Wine - Toward Natural and Sustainable Winemaking", a new and inquiring book by Dr Jamie Goode and Sam Harrop MW.
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Wine styles and varieties that "deserve more attention" were the focus of the 15 wines chosen by Jancis Robinson MW for her major tasting at Wine Future in Hong Kong
On September 21 the trade will have a chance to taste their way through the first UK showing of New Zealand's 2011 vintage white wines and 2010 red wines, together with newly released wines from past vintages.
