We think of Champagne as one region and one particularly delicious style of wine, invented by a certain monk a few centuries past. Quaffed...

A late spring visit to the Champagne region is often full of tension: will there be a late spring frost that kills many of the...

Alentejo, the vast region that accounts for a third of all Portugal’s land mass is having a moment. It’s had glorious moments in the past:...

April is Portuguese Wine month at The Good Wine Shop – a very welcome chance to share our enthusiasm for the amazing variety, quality and...

Saying Auf Wiedersehen to the bag, gallop on a thoroughbred, visit the seaside and discover why Germany is usurping Burgundy. If I had just a...

International Sherry week began 8 years ago – 7 whole days devoted to tasting, sharing, explaining the world’s most versatile and complex fortified wine. I’ve...

Viña Gravonia – THE icon of white Rioja made by Lopez de Heredia, beloved by most of the wine trade and all wine geeks, is...

Fresh from the coolest slopes in Rioja, a new iteration of Spain’s most famous liquid export has landed on our shelves – just in time for...

It began in the Middle Ages, after the discovery of the relic of St James led to the founding of his shrine in Santiago de...