Opinion

Hugh Johnson: ‘Among wine lovers the goal should be simply appreciation’

Hugh Johnson looks back to the birth of Decanter...

Pursehouse: Cool climate is the future of wine

Stay cool...

Katherine Cole: When wine met tariffs, history rarely went according to plan

Katherine Cole on wine tariffs...

Who even is 'the sommelier'?

Has the term's meaning been muddied..?

Baudains: Montalcino's quiet revolution

Brunello's younger sibling is stepping out from the shade...

Walls: Rhône reds lighten up

A trend towards paler reds...

Joel Stein: ‘Show up to that dinner with a 3-litre of anything and you are Dionysus’

What size bottle should you take to a dinner party...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Clairette is the brother of Grenache, and the perfect variety for revealing terroir here’

Andrew Jefford on the Clairette grape variety...

Walls: Exceptional single-vineyard Côte-Rôtie from Benjamin & David Duclaux

Eliza Dumais: From rosé all day, to no way rosé. Has pink wine lost its lustre?

Rosé, just not all day...

Baudains: ‘Natural wines don’t stink’, part 2

A further dive into the world of low intervention...

Walls: The joy of sand

With 11 wines from sandy soils...

Andrew Jefford: ‘We face three challenges: lack of rain, manpower and tourism’

Jefford talks to Yiannis Paraskevopoulos about the struggles Santorini faces in winemaking...

Walls' hidden gems: Domaine Verzier, a new future for the northern Rhône

Transparent wines with a sense of place...

Roger Jones: ‘Recent experiences have reignited my enthusiasm for NZ Sauvignon’

Roger Jones with a guest column on this iconic category...

Walls: Reflections on what makes cuvée Boisrenard so spéciale

A truly special cuvée...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Fine wines, like humans, seem to be moving into the semaglutide era, too’

Andrew Jefford on what we are looking for in a fine wine...

Baudains: Wines from the Tuscan coast

Discover Tuscany's coastal provinces, with 20 wines recommended...

Pursehouse: ‘An April on the road, and 10 of my top wines tasted’

Our North American Editor sounds off an adventurous April...

Hugh Johnson: ‘Labels, of course, play the key role’

Hugh Jonhson on wine's 'real worth'...

Blind faith: Eliza Dumais on our obsession with tasting blind

Why are we so fixated on tasting without seeing the label?