Wine boot camp What makes a wine rosé? Asked recently if pink and orange wines were the same, Julia explains... 24 Jul 2024 Julia Harding MW
Inside information Drappier's dosage demo Is Zero Dosage a good thing? What's the ideal sweetness level in... 8 Jul 2024 Jancis Robinson
Wine boot camp A whole bunch of stems Stemmy has become so popular as a tasting term that Julia had... 27 May 2024 Julia Harding MW
Wine boot camp Soaked to the skin Skin contact, skin maceration, fermentation on the skins – what's the difference... 25 Apr 2024 Julia Harding MW
Free for all WWC23 – Justin Trabue, by Claire Mumford In today's 2023 wine writing competition entry, wine enthusiast Claire Mumford writes... 21 Jul 2023 Guest contributor
Inside information The secrets of funky/flinty Chardonnay A deep dive into VSCs and correct sulphur-related terms. Virginia Willcock is... 18 Jan 2023 Julia Harding MW
Alder on America How flashy is American wine? The winemaking technique no one wants to talk about. A slowly growing... 16 May 2022 Alder Yarrow
Free for all Fishing for winemaking advice Nigel Greening, who wrote the popular Don't drink your own wine, on... 2 Feb 2022 Guest contributor
Inside information Is sulphur dioxide really the villain? Research from New Zealand suggests that that wine headache may be caused... 15 Mar 2021 Julia Harding MW
Inside information Diary of a Willamette cellar rat – part 8 Samantha bids farewell, for a while. Snow-covered Mount Hood in the background... 28 Oct 2019 Samantha Cole-Johnson
Free for all Diary of a Willamette cellar rat – part 7 24 October Today we are republishing free this seventh illuminating episode of... 24 Oct 2019 Samantha Cole-Johnson
Free for all 'Overstuffed' wines analysed A Purple Pager asked Elaine a question after her recent account of... 20 Mar 2019 Elaine Chukan Brown
Don't quote me Adventures of an amateur winemaker Moshe Cohen is based in Manchester, England. He had a small wine... 25 Oct 2017 Guest contributor
Alder on America Enologix – same as it ever was in Napa Fifteen years ago, at the height of wine critic Robert Parker’s influence... 16 Jan 2017 Alder Yarrow
Inside information Robots in the vineyard, shredders in the winery The level of detail in the technical presentations at last month’s International... 29 Jun 2016 Julia Harding MW
Free for all Struck-match wines – reductio ad absurdum? This is a longer version of an article also published by the... 24 Jan 2015 Jancis Robinson