It is no secret that the Bordeaux en primeur system of buying wines young, about 18 months before they are bottled, is...

I spent a week in February 2019 on a four-city tour with the Ningxia winery association. Ningxia, like Gansu and Xinjiang ha...

No other wine region I can think of has come so far so fast. Just 15 years ago, Ningxia had less than 3,000 hectares u...

Recently I spent 5 days in China with the Ningxia Winery Association hosting masterclasses about Chinese wines in Shanghai, ...

If you are a Super Tuscan lover, you would no doubt have heard of Ornellaia. It is one of the early pioneers of Bolghe...

Burgundies were downright cheerful when I saw them at the end of 2018 to taste their 2017s. Finally, they had wines to sell!...

2017 was a very good vintage in Burgundy and a pleasure to taste from barrel. The red wines are juicy and fresh with l...

A vintage is often defined by what came before it and after a challenging 2017 with severe frost and low yields, 2018 had to...