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...

Wine and health has not been getting the kind of media attention that it did more than 20 years ago. This first wave of medi...