Tim Atkin: What will an EU exit mean for the wine trade?

What will Brexit mean for the wine business? In the traumatic week that has followed the referendum and the decision of 52% of voters to leave the European Union, the very question has seemed increasingly, almost fatuously, irrelevant.

Tim Atkin MW: Where does Spain fit in the battle for wine supremacy?

Tim Atkin takes a look at Spanish terrior and where Spanish wines fit in the hieracrchy for supermacy as a top wine producing country.

Analysis: Burgundy's best buys

With Burgundy prices edging ever upwards, supply short and demand on a high, Tim Atkin MW looks at canny buys.

Tim Atkin MW: The health of wine on the UK high street

Failing the emergence of a last-minute saviour, BHS looks set to slide into administration this week, joining a list of major high street casualties that includes Comet, Woolworths and JJB Sports.

Tim Atkin MW: Let's talk climate change

You don't have to be meteorologist to appreciate that something very unusual is happening to the world's weather right now.

Tim Atkin MW: wising up to en primeur

You might not have noticed, but the annual Bordeaux en primeur campaign is almost upon us.

Tim Atkin MW: The story of the world's highest vineyard

In his wonderful book BAD: Or, the Dumbing of America, the late Paul Fussell developed a theory about altitude: the higher the restaurant, the worse the food.

Tim Atkin MW: Debating the merits of terroir

"Soil is dirt." I'm sure the Californian producer Bill Jekel was being deliberately provocative when he entered into a well-publicised debate about terroir with Bruno Prats of Château Cos d'Estournel at the end of the 1980s, but he was also articulating a position that was widely held in the New World at the time.

Tim Atkin MW: The battle over inheritance in Burgundy

Tim Atkin MW weighs in on the battle over inheritance in Burgundy and how it is tough for families where some want to sell and others want to carry on the family tradition.

Tim Atkin MW: Has Alberto Antonini opted to lead rather than follow the market?

Tim Atkin asks whether Alberto Antonini has decided to break away from more traditional styles of wine defined by the likes of Michel Rolland and to forge his own path.

Tim Atkin MW: Young winemakers behind South Africa's "golden" age of wine

When was the last time you entered a wine tasting through a record shop?

Tim Atkin MW: Rioja revolución

Tim Atkin MW takes a look at the current battle brewing in Rioja over regionality label regulations.

Tim Atkin MW: Swartland versus Stellenbosch

When the 400 tickets for this year's Swartland Revolution went on sale earlier this summer, they sold out within two minutes. It's the Wild West of wine.

Tim Atkin MW: The quality and diversity of Georgia

Tim Atkin MW: The hard work for Priorat wine pioneers

The village of Bellmunt del Priorat has its very own mining museum, a tribute to a time when lead was more important than grapes to the economy of this wild and isolated corner of Catalonia.

Tim Atkin MW: To spray or not to spray?

Tim Atkin MW takes a closer look at the current court case against Nuits-Saint-Georges' Thibault Liger-Belair.

Tim Atkin MW: Burgundy mourns the passing of Anne-Claude Leflaive

Anne-Claude Leflaive was sometimes described as one of Burgundy's "grandes dames" but there was nothing aloof about the woman who ran the most famous white wine domaine in the Côte de Beaune. Relaxed, friendly, yet intensely focused, Anne-Claude inherited the easy charm and sense of humour of her father, Vincent, who preceded her at the helm of this prestigious property.

Last chance for the Bordelais to get it right with 'out of touch' en primeur

There's a scene in This is Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner's 1984 spoof rockumentary about English heavy metal band Spinal Tap, that features a live performance of a song called "Stonehenge".

Tim Atkin MW: Last chance for Bordeaux to get it right with 'out of touch' en primeur

There's a scene in This is Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner's 1984 spoof rockumentary about English heavy metal band Spinal Tap, that features a live performance of a song called "Stonehenge". Keen to add some extra theatre to the gig, the band commission a model of the prehistoic English monument, which descends from above as they play on stage. There's only one problem: the dimensions are all wrong. Instead of 18-foot replica stones, the band orders 18-inch ones by mistake.

What we can all learn from the failure of Vinopolis

Is it really 16 years since Vinopolis opened its doors to the public? I can clearly remember the hoopla and sense of anticipation that accompanied the launch of London's self-styled "premier wine-tasting experience and visitor attraction".