Sherry, port and Madeira in profusion. This is surely the time of year when you can allow yourself to take the plunge into these very special wines. I tasted quite a range of fortified wines at home ...

On South Africa’s remote West Coast an unlikely fortified-wine revival is taking place. Malu Lambert reports.

Continuing from part three, this instalment takes a basketful of ingredients from the Asian store cupboard and considers which wines will make a toothsome match. Last month we covered ten ingredients ...

For more on the Rhône 2024 vintage, see this guide to our coverage. It’s been only since the 2023 vintage that white wines ...

Cairanne and Rasteau headline the 2024 vintage among the southern crus, but there’s plenty to like in other appellations, too ...

Domaine René Bouvier, Le Finage 2022 Marsannay 13% 50-year-old vines have yielded another northern Côte d’Or relative bargain ...

A Coravin allows you to do away with the corkscrew entirely, as you can just use this tool to siphon out a glass of wine ...

Gigondas has the upper hand in 2024, but both regions offer a lot of drinking pleasure. Above, the Dentelles de Montmirail ...

Vintage 2024 in the southern Rhone was not quite as dramatic as it was in the north, but there are similarities. The year in ...

The story in Châteauneuf-du-Pape largely reflects the story in the rest of the southern Rhône: it has produced some terrific ...

The fifth of a new seven-part podcast series giving the definitive story of Jancis’s life and career so far. For the rest of ...

Below is a rough guide to what our numbers mean. Although we are not very comfortable with scoring wines because it is so difficult to encapsulate a wine's qualities in a single score, we do realise ...