Bordeaux 2007: will new markets cause a price hike?
With reviews of the Bordeaux 2007s generally mixed, attention is turning to the appetite of the market for the wines - and their likely pricing.
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Bordeaux 2007: the early verdict
Bordeaux producers are struggling to generate excitement over the 2007 vintage, with visiting press and trade wary of both the quality of the wines and the likely prices.
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My passion for wine: Nicholas Soames MP
The Conservative MP and grandson of Sir Winston Churchill enjoys a robust indulgence in wine. Guy Woodward recounts a bruising encounter
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Mouton owner passionately defends prices
Baroness Philippine de Rothschild of Chateau Mouton-Rothschild last night launched an impassioned defence of the high prices increasingly being demanded by Bordeaux's classed growths.
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Sir Christopher Bland: My Passion For Wine
What does a knight of the realm, and chairman of one of Britain’s biggest companies do to relax? Prune vines, he tells Guy woodward
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Film review: A Good Year
They say never to work with children or animals. To which we can now add another subset. Friends.
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Goolden lives up to ladette billing as audience squirms
A couple of racy anecdotes from one of wine’s leading ladies left an august group of wine professionals squirming in their seats last night.
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Ageing Wine- Dead wood?
We’re all familiar with the buttery characteristics of oak-aged wines, but has their day been and gone? GUY WOODWARD finds the answer is far from a barrel of laughs��
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Bordelais wine: Putting the X in Bordeaux
For many young drinkers, Bordeaux is old-fashioned and irrelevant. GUY WOODWARD meets a group determined to inject the X-factor into the region’s international image
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Bordeaux top growths disown generic clarets
The Bordeaux crisis is nothing to do with the classed growths, according to a panel of leading Bordelais.
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Blanc lambasts 'ignorant' critics of France
French chef Raymond Blanc has launched an impassioned defence of French wine and accused its detractors of being ‘ignorant’ and ‘unfair’.
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Decanter: new star in the East
Decanter is to launch into the Far East, becoming the first western wine magazine to publish a dedicated Chinese language edition.
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Bordeaux sexes itself up
Bordeaux, the bastion of old-fashioned wine aristocracy, is getting sexy.
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My Passion for Wine: Felicity Dahl
Author and wine lover Roald Dahl bought 1,000 cases of 1982 Bordeaux....
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Christmas with the Spurriers
Have you picked out your Christmas dinner wines yet? Do you know how best to serve them? Renowned taster, Decanter consultant editor and all-round bon viveur Steven Spurrier opens the doors to his country retreat, his 4,000-bottle cellar, and gives GUY WOODWARD a few pointers on how to play the host.
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Penfolds identifies 'mystery' wine at clinic
Penfolds has just identified an ‘unknown’ wine that was brought to its recent re-corking clinic in London.
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John Shafer - Decanter interview
In 1979, a former Chicago businessman fermented his first Napa vintage in electric blankets. The wine’s success persuaded John Shafer to build a winery, and 25 years on, Shafer Vineyards is one of Napa’s top names. GUY WOODWARD hears a Californian success story
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American and French oak: Pulling Up Trees
The dominance of French and American oak at the world's wineries is under threat from Eastern European sources. GUY WOODWARD sizes up the new contenders
