The 20 best summer wines for 2018
Something dry and fresh for fish or ripe and red for a barbecue? For best value booze and high street bargains, the Observer’s wine expert is on the case
Is Bordeaux’s reign as the king of wines over?
With Bordeaux an ‘investment vehicle for the 1%’, it’s time to seek out future classics from Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa
The 20 best vegan wines
With more choices available in supermarkets and online than ever before, the Observer’s wine writer selects the pick of the bunch
Does booze go with chocolate? I should cocoa …
Chocolate is tricky to pair with drinks, at Easter or any other time. But from lighter sweet white wines to stouts, it’s always possible to find a match
Greg Rutherford: ‘I was the one stealing from the milk-float after an all-nighter’
The Olympic long jumper on pizza, being ‘fit-fat’ and letting kids eat chocolate
Why Georgia is a hotspot for natural wines
They’ve been making wine for thousands of years in this Black Sea country – and now it’s at the forefront of a renaissance in traditional methods
Terroir, natural wines and indie producers: how booze has changed since 2001
Since the first issue of Observer Food Monthly in 2001, the world of wine has altered radically
The 50 best Christmas wines for 2017
Observer Food Monthly’s selection of the best bottles from high street bargains to the top of the range
It’s elemental: does wine have a language problem?
When it comes to wine-tasting is the fashion for certain words, such as ‘minerality’, a help or a hindrance?
Sommeliers are not the new rock stars of food and drink – they’re the new DJs
Obsessive about their subject, the talent of the new breed of master sommeliers lies in shaping the mood and lining up seamless food and wine matches
Wine, protest and Macron: why southern French wine producers are so angry
The ‘vinuous terrorists’ of Languedoc-Roussillon are battling changing French drinking habits and a new president as they seek to preserve the region’s traditions
50 best summer wines for 2017
Drinks for a barbecue, a posh dinner – or just something to uncork on a lazy sunny afternoon? Here are the perfect choices for every budget
Westerns Laundry, London: restaurant review
The food is excellent at this new Islington seafood house, writes Jay Rayner. But the silly fad for ‘natural’ wines will spoil your dinner
Uber for wine: and all without grapes
Ava Winery wants to re-create drinks in the lab, including some chemically identical to expensive old wines. Will it work?
Taste test: champagne and sparkling wines
Vintage, rosé, prosecco, cava and English – Bubbledogs’ sommelier and co-founder Sandia Chang tastes and rates high-street fizzes