For the uninitiated, the Trebbiano Spoletino grape comes across in the glass as the cryptic love child of some seriously old vine Riesling a...

In the next dozen or so paragraphs we hope to fill you in on everything you ever wanted to know about Sekt (but were afraid to ask)... If y...

With a history of viticulture going back to Gallo-Roman times, throughout the Roman occupation in the 1st century AD, wine from this region...

Once a rather rare fault in wines, mousiness has become so much more prevalent over the past fifteen or so years, and one can mainly put thi...

It has been said that in the town of Chavignol (located in the Loire Valley, France), goats greatly outnumber humans, and that almost every...

Throughout the 1970s and 80s in both the UK and North America, cheap, treacly sweet, and aggressively fizzy Lambrusco (often regarded as the...

Although England is a country mired in a drinks history of ales and mead, there are mentions of 38 separate vineyards in 1086’s Domesd...

Over 400 years ago the Azores islands, situated in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, some 1,450 km west of Lisbon (and 3,900 km from the eas...

Pedro Ximénez (pronounced peh-dro hee-MEN-eth) is both a grape variety from Montilla-Moriles and a naturally sweet style of Sherry fr...

Ruché (pronounced roo-KAY) is an aromatic red grape grown almost exclusively in the Ruché di Castagnole Monferrato appellation...