World Of Fine Wine

South American red wine has made huge progress over the past two decades, but the most impressive wines still rely on two established red varietal stars, says David Williams as he introduces a tasting of some of the continent’s...

It is easy to caricature Malbec as an overripe, overoaked, and uncomplicated steakhouse red. Indeed, that became its reputation during the early 2000s, as the variety boomed in Argentina and took international markets by storm. Generous in fruit, deep in color, voluptuous in texture, and usually accompanied by a generous seasoning of oak, Malbec offered an immediately...

Stuart Walton reviews The Barbarous Feast: Eating & Writing in the Eighteenth Century World by Sophie Gee.

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This tasting was held in London at the end of 2025 to launch Ramos Pinto’s remarkable 50-year-old Tawny Port (see my note overleaf). But most of the event was in fact devoted to Ramos Pinto’s Vintage Ports and—in the words of Jorge Rosas (the family member who directs Ramos Pinto)—“the sense of place [that is] paramount in crafting a

The tireless, extraordinarily detailed work of fine-wine producers such as Château Figeac is at the forefront of a new science of fine wine, says Andrew Wood, and one of the key themes of his new book, Noble Nine: The Science and Story of the World’s Favourite Wines.

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