A guide to our coverage of vintage 2023 in the Rhône Valley. Above, the Rhône viewed from vineyards in Ampuis (courtesy of Inter Rhône).

As is often the case there was more disparity in quality in Crozes-Hermitage but for good reason in 2023. A belt of hail swept through the southern part of the appellation on 29 July affecting ...

Côte Rôtie produced a healthy volume of fruit in 2023 and, providing growers reined back on excess and waited for individual ...

On the whole, northern Rhône whites fared well in 2023. Despite relatively low acidity and higher pHs there’s a freshness in ...

The Yellow Bittern is open for Monday lunch when many restaurants of a similar calibre are closed. There is even a bookshop ...

The winemaker-in-waiting at González Byass, Silvia Flores Cintado is the fifth subject in a series of in-depth interviews by ...

In 1988 I wrote a book called The Demon Drink about the defining ingredient of all alcoholic drinks. It did not exactly fly ...

If there is a constant undercurrent in the Italian wine world, it is the consciousness that France got there first – even ...

Clearly, I am an American – which means I’m preoccupied by the potential demise of our political system on 5 November … but I ...

Named after the composition of the first vintage (tanks 10 and 12), the 10+12 Vieilles Vignes is made from foot-trodden ...

After a marathon tasting spree from Vienne to Valence, James Lawther finds the challenging vintage light on ageability but ...

The Blue Stoops is Allsopp’s first pub and restaurant and it could not have a more fitting location. It occupies a corner ...