After tasting these 49 wines, all retailing for €25 or less in Spain, I can say with confidence that Rioja remains a trustworthy source of consistently good wines at very reasonable prices. Many of ...

Wherever you stand in the Great Southern region, the landscape undulates concentrically away. Under such vast skies the distant horizon looks flat, but up close you can see how the earth buckles and ...

The second tasting held in honour of Rioja’s 100th anniversary brought together a large number of very good wines. It was a ...

The world just came together in Italy – and there’s never been a better time to explore its wines and beyond. For a limited ...

A focus on single-village, single-vineyard and single-variety Rioja. Above, Juan Carlos Sancha and his mule working the Cerro la Isa vineyard – source of Ferran’s standout white wine of the tasting.

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 ...

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 ...

The inherently Italian pleasures of my lunch at Doppo on Dean Street – thin slices of scallops topped with equally thin slices of tart apples (below), pici with a thick sausage sauce and a glass of ...

Last week’s MBT article focused on evaluating a wine’s ‘nose’ – aka the presence and intensity of aromas. Today we’ll dig ...

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 ...

Picking out value and genuine interest in California wine. More on Saturday. Above, an old Zinfandel vine at Dry Creek Vineyard, whose prices are especially reasonable and its practices admirably ...