‘I believe there is no direct correlation between price and quality with wine’

‘Real care is being lavished on rosé production all over the world’

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‘In the middle of this valley there was a pasture that looked more like a flower garden than a vineyard’

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‘Australian wine exports to China are worth more than twice those to the UK’

‘The quality being made today is higher than it has ever been, and the range is so much wider’

‘With climate change, higher villages on the Côte d’Or are producing whites with enough ripeness’

‘Rioja had a bit of a reputational wobble a couple of years ago because the name had no value’

‘There are signs of change in how the variety is viewed — ambitious, sophisticated Garnachas are proliferating’

‘The four most recent vintages of Craiglee Shiraz have a common thread of freshness and delicacy’

As prices enter the stratosphere, wine lovers are looking elsewhere – largely to Germany

‘Some Massandra wines — the toast of tsars — have been shipped with great difficulty to the west’

‘Top-quality dry Riesling is a truly thrilling drink with more pace and variation than white burgundy’

‘There are now 50 Lebanese wine producers — at the beginning of the century there were just 14’

‘Many of us have a Pavlovian reaction to the pop of a cork but guests do not have to be welcomed with fizz’

‘I have had the pleasure of tasting six vintages of Harlan Estate recently . . . some are extremely good’

‘Baroness Rothschild swore that her wines stored in the UK tasted better than those stored in Bordeaux’

‘For the first time in living memory, the St-Émilions fared better than those in neighbouring Pomerol’

‘Adding water to the fermentation vat is not necessarily evil – it can mean a better-balanced wine’

‘It is only worth ageing a wine with lots of tannin if there is enough fruit to support it’

‘Growers who plant Riesling grapes in Bordeaux must sell their wine as geographically vague Vin de France’