The Cabernet is fine, but look to Shiraz, Pinot Gris and other less-popular varieties to taste where Victoria really shines. My trip to Australia earlier this year was focused on Victoria’s ...

Hot, hot, hot – and much quieter than usual. Above, one of Sylt's many (delightfully cool) beaches. This month’s diary will be shorter than usual because I did very little other than wilt – a bit like ...

We've whittled the 309 entries to our 2025 wine writing competition down to a shortlist of the top 25. Readers have until midnight UK time on Monday 15 September to vote HERE for their favourite ...

The final resto on Ben’s whistle-stop tour leads him to England’s south coast and Hove’s thriving food scene.

Below is a rough guide to what our numbers mean. Although we are not very comfortable with scoring wines because it is so difficult to encapsulate a wine's qualities in a single score, we do realise ...

In this brief but clever entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, sommelier Maria Banson writes a haiku about Chardonnay. See the guide to our competition for more.

Joseph Rosenfeld writes this passionate entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Zibibbo – Muscat of Alexandria's Sicilian alter ego. See this guide to our competition for more fantastic wine ...

In Rioja Alta the monks whispered prayersu2028 into furrows, not cathedrals.u2028 Temprano, they called it—u2028 the early ...

Oliver Carr writes Oliver Carr is a sommelier who now lives in Denmark and works for wine distributor Vinova. Vinova imports, among other things, wines from the Loire Valley “Riesling might be the ...

This is a white wine from Adelaide Hills, produced by Worlds Apart Wines. See our expert review of the 2023 on JancisRobinson.com.

Meanwhile, fires in Spain’s Castilla y Leon, Galicia and Asturias regions continue to burn. Reuters reports that wildfires have consumed more than a million hectares of land so far this year, breaking ...

It’s not just the weather—it’s a reckoning. The monsoon in India (June – September) feeds 1.4 billion people, replenishes ...