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With climate extremes, Bordeaux is entering a golden age in wine with one good vintage after another

If you are celebrating St Patrick’s Day with a stew, Michael Robinson recommends pairing it with a merlot

The name of the Alpasion winery in Mendoza, Argentina is a combination of soul and passion in Spanish. And that is exactly what Bermudian sommelier Hannah Schaefer is discovering during a three-month internship there. “I used to work at Discovery Win...

A mutual fund set up to invest in fine wines is to be wound up, the Supreme Court ordered on Friday. The Bermuda Monetary Authority said in a release that it had successfully petitioned the Supreme Court of Bermuda to wind up The Wine Investment Fun...

Michael Robinson on lobster, and the wine that goes with it

Mourvèdre in France, monastrell in Spain and mataro in California or Australia all refer to the same thick-skinned grape that is known for its extreme colour and strong tannins

Michael Robinson on great wines, and why stock numbers are so useful

Last week there wasn’t a bubbly or rosé among my suggestions for Valentine’s Day and so I will make up for that now. For instance, what could be more appropriately Bermudian than your own rock angel? The 2020 Chateau d’Esclans Rock Angel Rosé is a w...

Valentine’s Day is near and so I should be taking the usual path and writing about twelve sparkling rosé wines – as we have them. Last year we featured a dozen rosé still wines and of course there is always the French Saint Amour; we’ll try somethin...

With the sad news that David Crosby is no longer with us, this old rock and roller is thinking of the very first time – 1978 – when my wife and I travelled together to San Francisco. We stayed at “Spreckels”, a mansion that belonged to Graham Nash o...

Michael Robinson lists six wines under $20 that will bring “a good amount of pleasure” to the drinker

Carménère, a cross between cabernet franc and trousseau vines, is to Chile what shiraz is to Australia or zinfandel to California. Michael Robinson writes of five Chilean wines at Burrows Lightbourn that feature the grape