Back in September we booked out the snug private room at Bocca di Lupo in Soho for a fascinating tasting.
Massimo and Michele Bernetti, father and son owners of Umani Ronchi, wanted to mark the 20th vintage of their Cumaro Conero wine with a special tasting. Along with six vintages of this remarkable wine, which ...

Wine Spectator, one of the world's most respected wine journals, has just awarded Trimbach Riesling 2007 a massive 91 points, and designated it a 'smart buy'. The tasters said of it:
"Subtle, offering a finely woven mix of white peach and crushed pine needle flavours...there's a racy acidity, but it's well-meshed, with a mineral note on ...

Have just tasted the new vintage to come in from our Saar star, Carolin Hofmann (of Weingut Willems). Looking at the 2007 and the 2008 together, I would say that the more recent of the two is fresher and more mineral, as well as tighter and not yet as expressive on the nose ...

A brilliant result for Umani Ronchi of the Marche; two of their wines,
Verdicchio Riserva Plenio 2006 and Pelago 2006, have earned the famous Tre Bicchieri or three Glasses award from Gambero Rosso, the most prestigious Italian Wine Guide.
For Plenio this is the sixth year in a row that it has collected the Tre Bicchieri ...

One of the great pleasures of working in the wine trade is meeting a host of people for whom their sense of adventure as well as a desire to make great wine has taken them far from their native places. A great example of just such a globetrotting grape fanatic is Rudi Bauer of ...

Edgar attended the Borsa Vini presentation at the Dorchester, which focused on the new developments in Prosecco. Here's what he found: "In brief: what used to be IGT will now be DOC, and a classico zone around Conegliano-Valdobbiadene will be changed to DOCG. Yields will be reduced as a result.
The new DOCG will ...