Customers choose the prices as Oddbins relaunches
Embattled UK retailer Oddbins has relaunched onto the UK high street under new ownership.
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New World Discovery Theatre: Long Island
As the closest winemaking region to New York City itself – just 100 miles from downtown Manhattan – Long Island has a strong unique selling point... By Guy Woodward
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Video: Francois Lurton
Francois Lurton of Domaines Francois Lurton talks to Guy Woodward about the challenges of making wine in different countries
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Video: Peter Gago of Penfolds
Peter Gago, chief winemaker of Australian producer Penfolds, was in London to celebrate the 50th commercial release of the winery’s St Henri Shiraz, as well as showing two new wines.
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'If a buyer told us he didn't like our wine, we'd tell him where to go'
A busy week - lots of tastings, and lots of producers in town, particularly from the Southern Hemisphere.
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Interview: Brian Moore
The ex-England rugby hardman tells guy woodward about his alter-ego, Gollum, and his love-hate relationship with the French
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Stars of Burgundy shine at Decanter Man of the Year dinner
Aubert de Villaine was officially crowned as Decanter’s 2010 Man of the Year at a star-studded dinner in London last night.
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M&S chief: minimum pricing is 'insane'
The boss of UK high street giant Marks & Spencer has launched an outspoken attack on the idea of government intervention in the pricing of alcohol.
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Bordeaux 2009: An 'exciting' vintage, but disagreements over quality
As the dust settles on the en primeur week, followers of the lauded Bordeaux 2009 are facing more questions than answers over what is proving an intoxicating vintage.
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Fabio Capello, Friuli, the Frescobaldis and an unfortunate hand ball...
Tuscan wine royalty the Frescobaldi family were in London last week to open their first restaurant outside Italy. And what better place to do so than the capital’s department-store-to-the-stars, Harrods, writes Guy Woodward
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Australian producers rally to stem flood of New Zealand Sauvignon
Some of Western Australia’s most prominent producers are pooling their resources to combat the ever-increasing popularity of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc.
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Guy Woodward's blog: the last instalments
Decanter's editor Guy Woodward spent three weeks in South Australia, visiting upwards of 30 wineries, tasting hundreds of wines and meeting anybody who is anybody in the world of Aussie wine. We catch him here in Margaret River, with the McHenry Hohnen pigs...
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My Passion for Wine; Frank Cohen
guy woodward meets the Mancunian former market trader whose love of a deal extends to wine as well as his art collection
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'Surprise' result for Margaux and Lafite against New World
In what might be seen as a reversal of recent trends, two Bordeaux first growths have triumphed in a top-level blind tasting.
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Bordeaux 2008: Decanter tasters give their verdict
Decanter’s team of tasters have given their first verdict on Bordeaux’s 2008s - and the early signs are that the vintage is better than had been expected.
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Global warming will cause 'untold upheaval' to wine industry
One of Australia’s leading voices in the wine industry has warned producers that they face untold upheaval if they are to combat the effects of global warming.
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Lay & Wheeler-Majestic deal 'not forced' by recession
Lay & Wheeler president Johnny Wheeler has denied claims that the takeover of the merchant was forced on the family firm by falling revenues.
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Gerard Depardieu - Interview
France’s most famous actor speaks frankly with GUY WOODWARD about his life and family, and why working the soil, tending vines and producing artisanal food is a greater ambition than any Hollywood role
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South Africa Fights Back
Despite global acclaim, consumers’ opinion of South African wine is still poor. GUY WOODWARD looks at how the country is fighting back
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Trio of Krug vintages at the Dorchester gets Decanter readers excited
Decanter readers put off financial worries for a brief moment at a grand dinner hosted by Decanter and Champagne Krug at the Dorchester Hotel earlier this week.
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Bordeaux 2005
Last month’s tastings of the stellar 2005 Bordeaux were notable for the triumph of lesser known estates. Decanter editor GUY WOODWARD assesses the implications
