Auctioneers Spectrum and wine merchant Vanquish have taken the unprecedented step of categorically denying that the consignee in tomorrow's London sale is Rudy Kurniawan.

Camel Valley Vineyards in Cornwall has submitted the UK's first single grower application for Protected Designation of Origin status.

A cache of pre-World War II wine found in a suburban garden was destroyed by the British army bomb squad, a reader recounts in this month's issue of Decanter magazine.

New UK government guidelines warning that drinking two large glasses of wine a day triples the risk of mouth cancer are 'scaremongering’' an influential alcohol lobby group claims.

Chateau Tertre Daugay has been renamed Chateau Quintus, Domaine Clarence Dillon, owner of Chateau Haut-Brion and La Mission Haut-Brion, has announced.

University of Chicago Business School and the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania have been selected as finalists in the Left Bank Bordeaux Cup.

Corney & Barrow has released the 2009 vintage from Domaine de la Romanee-Conti with a promise that future prices will be 'steady and logical'.

The UK's status as a serious producer of cool-climate sparkling wines has been further cemented by the announcement that the ninth International Cool Climate Symposium will take place in the UK.

In an attempt to curb fraud the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is proposing amendments to national regulations governing the production of Icewine.

Another UK fine wine company has disappeared from the radar leaving orders unfulfilled â€" while its director sets up a similar company under another name.

The UK's fine dining restaurants are rapidly turning their wine lists electronic, with the Vineyard at Stockcross the latest to embrace the iPad.

The Quarterly Review of Wines has ceased publication after 35 years â€" because, its publisher said, there is no longer any romance in wine.

Renowned Rhone producer Michel Chapoutier has added to the natural wine debate by denouncing natural winemakers as out-of-touch hippies making defective wines.

Wine Australia has axed its controversial export approval panel with immediate effect, replacing it with a permanent company audit regime.