The history of wine is a long and convoluted one, and it takes a writer of rare skill to bring it to life. In a typically sparkling excerpt from his re-issued The Story of Wine, the veteran journalist looks at how Christian Spain built its wine industry on Moorish foundations

Most of us will have rejected a wine because it was corked. But have you ever sent a bottle back because it tastes of light? Essi Avellan MW explains the increasingly topical issue of lightstrike

Every year the giant distiller Diageo dips into its stocks of maturing Scotch to curate a limited-edition collection of one-off whiskies. Becky Paskin casts her eye over this year's selection

Henry Jeffreys' The Cocktail Dictionary is an A-Z guide of every cocktail recipe you need to know, from the Old Fashioned and the Martini to the Margarita and Daiquiri. Here he picks three simple cocktails to try at home

What makes a great vintage? As the 2020 harvest begins across Europe, Jane Anson takes a look at the five criteria that Bordeaux vignerons use to determine just how good a vintage is going to be

In the second part of our wine-reading round-up we navigate fortified wines and strong opinions, via Burgundy, Germany and New York

There’s no getting away from it – wine is intoxicating. But, argues Jamie Goode in his new wine ‘manifesto’, it is, to some extent, different from other such substances: it is a virtuous intoxicant

Discover a selection of this year's best new wine books, with something to suit everyone from beginners to experts

The wild, natural and traditional wines of Georgia have been the darling of the hipster wine scene. But, says Lisa Granik MW, too many are nothing more than hobbyist ventures – and such amateurism damages the country’s long-term prospects