World Of Fine Wine

In a paper originally presented to the Pinot Noir and Identity Symposium at Oxford University, Meg Maker charts the evolution of writing on Pinot Noir, from the evaluative, to the descriptive and metaphoric.

“We talk...

An eclectic, heterogeneous line-up spanning the non-Iberian sweet fortified world was full of discovery, surprise, and originality, even if no single wine quite reached the peaks of the best of Portugal and Spain, says Andrew Jefford after a tasting shared with

Tom Stevenson on Light-26, a new bottle with the potential to transform the way Champagne and other sparkling wine is made and aged.

Inspired by the 19th-century English physician Francis E Anstie, Dr Erik Skovenborg explores attitudes to risk and safety when it comes to drinking alcohol.

There is no safe limit of skiing—hour for hour, skiing is 300–400% more likely to ...

Did the Abel clone originate in a suitcase-smuggled cutting taken from DRC’s  La Tâche monopole? Or does it have an altogether more modest background?    

Many a folkloric wine tale has melted away under the harsh light of DNA analysis over the years. It was recently the turn of one of