Clos LaChance in San Martin exudes elegance, from its Old World architecture of trellised walls to its castle-theme interior, complete with a floor-to-ceiling fireplace of hand-hewn stone. Visitors are bound to feel quite fancy, surrounded by tapestries,...

Paso Robles is one of the few appellations within California's Central Coast known for Zinfandel. Recent years have seen increased plantings of Rhone grape varieties, but Paso Robles Zinfandel has a following of its own. Proponents of these opulently fruited...

New Zealand's wine industry is capping the amount of grapes grown in the country.

The end of the month sees the wine-blogospheres attention focusing on the Lisbon Wine Bloggers Conference; it's one of those countries I've long hankered to visit. For years the wines have intrigued and delighted. I recall the arrival of a handful of new listings to the shelves of the wine merchants I use to run way, way back, the exploration of those oddly named grapes (the intense, firm Baga, the aromatic, herby, full-bodied Tourgia Nacional, the peachy Bical, the rich, honeyed Fonte Cal et al) and the subsequent enjoyment of those distinctive flavours and food-friendly styles. If there is one thing that hasn't changed at all over the intervening years it is the dreadful packaging on many of the wines. What sells in suburban Lisbon really doesn't cut it on the shelves of Waitrose, Threshers or the independent. This may go some way in explaining why, despite the critics raving over the wines, Portugal remains on the lower rung of players in the UK wine scene. A few days ago I plon

For oenophiles in search of a good grape escape, you have options other than Napa.

Typically, here's how wine is made: White grapes are quickly crushed and the juice pressed away to start becoming wine. Red grapes are crushed so the juice can sit on the skins - a process called skin contact, which sounds vaguely obscene but is tantalizing...

Like its Mediterranean neighbours, parts of the French wine industry are in recession with market prices failing to cover production costs in many regions.

A record 273 wines were entered into this year's annual Blackwood Valley & Western Australia Boutique Wine Show held in Bridgetown during October.

The Brookland Valley 2008 Chardonnay has won best wine of show at the 32nd Qantas Wine Show of Western Australia.

Applications are open for the fourth intake in 2010 of the wine industry's successful Future Leaders - succession for the Australian wine sector program.