Major investments have revolutionised Spain’s fine wine sector, and many more collectors are now engaging in blue-chip Spanish wines, Jamie Lawrence discovers

A 60-year-old Macallan last week sold for a record-breaking £1.5m at Sotheby's. How can a bottle of whisky be worth so much? Richard Woodard reports

After 118 years buried under thousands of tons of chalk, a cache of intact bottles of Champagne from 1897 has been discovered. Peter Dean was there as the first bottle was opened

The mountainous region of Alto Adige is about much more than winter skiing, as Justin Keay discovers