Responding to Will Lyons’s article, Chairman Simon Berry argues that to discover the future of wine, one need look only to its past When I took over the editorship of Number Three magazine from my father in the early 1980s, I persuaded him to write a regular column. Entitled, not very imaginatively, “Then & Now”, […]

From new technology to the impact of climate change, author, journalist and fine wine specialist Will Lyons takes a view on what lies ahead in the wine world “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” reads the famous opening of LP Hartley’s evocative novel The Go-Between, in which the narrator, returning […]

At Domaine Durand in the Ardèche, siblings Eric and Joël Durand produce estimable Syrah, Marsanne and Roussanne, but it is their outstanding Viognier, farmed at 450 metres, that has put them on the map. Here Eric shares his views on the ascendance of Cornas Cornas has really come of age because it’s a granite circle […]

If 2017 already has you in a wine-drinking rut, Paul Keating – Wine Advisor in our Warehouse Shop – has the cure: six thoroughly unusual and utterly delicious bottles. Here he explains just why they’re worth trying As the New Year unfolds, so too should a new perspective on the world of wine. I’m sure […]