Jude and I visit the Dalla Cia family in South Africa and try their wines and amazingly good Grappa (although obviously it is not really grappa as it does not come from Italy). Just as good as the real thing though - even better really than quite a few good Italian examples I have tasted.

Two Green & Blue Clapham customers incur my extreme wrath (albeit unbeknownst to them) and then television compounds my misery by basically lying through its miserable teeth about the quality of a certain wine. I am now VERY angry.

Jude and I go to South Africa to choose the winning candidate for the inaugural Green & Blue Scholarship.

In 1976, a wine tasting in Paris changed the world when, in a line up of top Claret against top Cabernet's from Napa Valley, California triumphed. We re-created our own version of this and these are the results. By Kate

Day 2 of our Spanish trip and the three of us have a profoundly wonderful time at Vega Sicilia after adventures in underground parking and before getting completely lost in Vallodalid.

Claire, Tom and I visit Palacios Remondo in Rioja on the first day of our Spanish trip.

The story of a tasting of some recent-ish and not so recent vintages of Cristal held in central London in Apri. By Kate

Doug's italian vinous adventure continues through Valle D'Aoste and into Piedmont (with an amazingly insightful diversion into Biodynamic viticulture).

Douglas Wregg writes about wine with as much accomplishment as he displays in his tasting of it, so we are naturally both delighted and honoured that he is posting details of his recent trip to Northern Italy on our web site. Thanks Doug - you can post here anytime!!

A tasting of the fabulous wines of Alion - one of those in the Vega Sicilia stable - from the very first vintage in 1991, all the way up to 2003. By Kate