For New Zealand winemaker Oliver Styles, it was a question that came to dominate his life over a testing – and testy – two months during harvest

From a brush with the gendarmes to a rapidly-emptying cellar, Nina Caplan chronicles a surreal but well-nourished two months hunkered down in the remote Burgundian countryside

The veteran wine writer says rivalling Champagne is now a given, and English producers should be setting their sights on the still wines of Burgundy and Provence

Jamie Ritchie, Sotheby’s global head of fine wine, reflects on the contradictions of life in lockdown as he witnesses the 280-year-old auction house embracing the digital age

The Wine Society’s Rhône, German and Southern French buyer is the latest guest columnist to document his experience in lockdown

Joe Fattorini has been chronicling the changing moods and fortunes of the UK’s sommeliers as they face up to an uncertain future. The results have only increased his respect for our corkscrew wielders…

In lockdown, the pandemic has convinced the advertising legend of the need to change our approach to agriculture. And, he says, the wine world can do its bit…

With little in the way of work, and Milan shut down, Andrea Loi, head sommelier at Seta in the city’s Mandarin Oriental hotel, turned to other pursuits to stay sane…

Confinement has given the Jancis Robinson contributor and 67 Pall Mall ambassador the perfect conditions in which to appreciate fine wine. But somehow, it’s just not the same…

Richard Siddle has been a business journalist all his working life. Chronicling the drinks industry’s response to the COVID-19 crisis has, he says, been strangely uplifting