Investors are reducing their exposure to the traditional fine wines of Bordeaux and Burgundy and turning to Italy for reliable and future-proofed collectibles

The legendary vineyard has multiple owners, but only one of them is a billion-dollar multinational corporation. Elin McCoy considers the implications of Constellation Brands’ fight to take control of the To Kalon name

On Bordeaux is an anthology of wine stories from 1833 to the present day. Here we reproduce an 1893 entry from the great comic writing duo Somerville and Ross, who travelled the Médoc one autumn with their notebooks, sketchpads and a new device they called ‘the Kodak’ for their only venture into wine writing – with hilarious and still familiar results

Glass, that most delicate of substances, is created from the humblest of earth-bound materials – but in the hands of a master glassblower, it becomes truly ethereal

Damage is still being assessed, but Napa’s winemakers are facing the reality of an annual wildfire season, and wondering how one of the world’s most famous wine regions can survive intact

Battered by COVID and targeted by the government, the South African wine industry is resolute in its determination to ride out the crisis

The winners of the 2020 IWSC spirits trophies are announced today, following weeks of rigorous tastings, and there's a few surprises... German single malt, anyone?

It’s become a hot – and often misunderstood – topic, with conflicting reports about what goes into most wines, why, and what is actually permitted. Simon J Woolf explains all…

With her husband Jacques Thienpont, Fiona Morrison MW oversees one of Bordeaux’s most prestigious wines, Le Pin. As the couple – and their counterparts across the region – begin this year’s black grape harvest, she recalls the drama of the first day of the 2019 season

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