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Funnily enough I was chatting yesterday to an Australian winemaker who only uses screwcaps, for his reds and his whites, whether they're premium or everyday fare. His view - and he's scientifically trained - is that screwcaps are perfect for ageing wines as they do allow a certain amount of...

Maybe the people I know aren't that intelligent then!

One of the reasons that the public in this country find it so hard to assess the true value of a wine, and what they need to pay for a decent bottle from any given region or in any given style, is the price mechanics that the supermarkets use. I know so many people who say they bought a...

There's more interesting stuff coming out of Chile these days and it's not usually too expensive, but an awful lot of so-so stuff that is not that exciting, personally speaking. Some £18 wines are amazing (like I say, try S Africa, Greece, Portugal, Southern France) but at that level you'd...

Once you're up in the luxury end of the market the prices lose their relationship with quality. You're really paying for the scarcity factor or the perceived prestige of a big name in a great vintage. I personally don't know of anything below £15 or thereabouts that could be called a really...

Pretty much all the big wine brands we see in the UK are made to hit supermarket price points. And those price points have barely moved in recent years. You might wonder how that's achieved, given that duty goes up most years and so do most other costs facing the producers. The currency shift...