Canadian wine producers are getting very bold, planning a major tasting of what they reckon are the best Ontario Chardonnays at Canada House in London the day before the start of this year’s London wine trade far at Excel. Bill Redelmeier, owner of Southbrook Vineyards in Niagara-on-the-Lake,.

From $32.99, £28.49, Can$48.95, also in Denmark, Sweden and Liechtenstein Find this wine   I have long been a fan of Ridge Vineyards in California. They featured in my 1981 selection of a handful of producers for The Great Wine Book . We filmed there in 1983 for the first series of The Wine.

There are just three more weeks for applications for the Geoffrey Roberts Award 2010 , a   £3,000/$4,500 travel grant in search of a potential achiever in food or drink who can convince us judges that they will spend the money wisely on a worthwhile travel project. Please spread the word..

Faced with an array of more than 500 Austrian wines at a tasting in London earlier this month, I found it hard to know where to start, and where to finish (I think I was the last one standing...). My original intention was to focus on whites from the 2009 vintage, to see if my impression of the.

As I signposted in New sweet white from Ornellaia , Bolgheri grows a mind-boggling range of grape varieties. Finding Viognier, Sauvignon Blanc, Tannat, Sangiovese and Syrah all planted close to each other might not seem strange in New World regions but is definitely unexpected for somewhere as.

Those of you who have never heard of the Japanese grape variety about which I wrote on Saturday in Koshu gets a passpor t may be a bit puzzled. But Grace Koshu was certainly the wine that stood out for me on my first two visits to Japan many years ago, and the variety has also found favour with.

'Japan, wine exporter' has a somewhat unlikely ring to it, but that is the aim of a new organisation, Koshu of Japan, that would very much like to shine an international spotlight on a grape variety that is often dismissed within its native country. I have just made my second visit in 12 years to.

The second course of our dinner at the Tawaraya ryokan, a traditional inn where one sleeps directly on tatami mats, in Kyoto, Japan, contained a series of dried and pickled fish topped with a hiragi leaf, very similar but smaller than a holly leaf. (The picture is of just part of a room service.

I hope that as this is published I am high above the Atlantic flying home after a whirlwind two-week tour of Japan, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing in mainland China, and northern California. It was a delightful bonus to be able to travel with Nick, now that our youngest has - boo, hoo - left.

One of the observations made in Sassacaia - the background understatements is that the Bolgheri DOC is getting too big. The implication was that quality suffers as a result, but there is another symptom: a proliferation of wine styles that vary enormously. This needn't necessarily be a.

South Africa's wine producers, whose generic campaign is founded on the special nature of the Cape ecosystem ('a natural environment exceptional in its biodiversity'), are up in arms at the sudden proposal by the state-owned African Exploration Mining and Finance Corporation (AEMFC) to start.

Angelo Gaja sends the following. Although 2009 was a black year for Italian exports overall, down 20% according to the official government statistics, for Italian wine it was an all-time record year with an increase in the overall volume of wine exported which was close to 10%, even if the value.

See also Tamlyn‘s tasting notes from a 10th anniversary tasting of wines from The WineBarn. In the tiny, picturesque Hampshire village of Dummer (home to the likes of Prince Andrew’s ex, Sarah Ferguson, and ‘It girl’ Tara Palmer-Tomkinson), and down a narrow lane flanked with fields, is an.