In our series investigating which bottles you should be drinking this year, Laura Atkinson-Godwin takes a look at the noble whites of northern Europe, telling you which Alsatian, Austrian and German bottles to open over the coming year. The tricky question of what to drink and when continues to challenge us, never truer for the complex […]

After 20 years spent pouring his vinous enthusiasm into the column inches of leading newspapers and magazines, John Stimpfig has been installed as Decanter’s Editorial Content Director. Here, the 2012 Louis Roederer International Wine Feature Writer of the Year talks Chinese Cabernets, his hopes for Bordeaux’s revival in 2015 and the magnitude of Serge Hochar’s […]

Amidst the January gloom Demetri Walters MW, Sales Manager of our Private Wine Events team, looks to sunnier climes as he celebrates the wine-producing landscape of the Mediterranean Following the inevitable post-Christmas blues, I suspect that many of you are now researching where you might book for your summer holiday. If the Mediterranean features on […]

As 2014 comes to a close, members of our buying team look back on their favourite wines of the year and explain why these bottles are – to them – rather special Mark Pardoe MW 2013 Domaine Lyrarakis, Thrapsathiri, Armi, Crete, Greece My interest is always piqued by grape varieties which are (to me) as yet […]