I am often asked to give general (and difficult) wine recommendations along the lines of — “what red wines do you like?” and my answer has been the same for the last few years — look to Spain.

We need to talk about sulphur. You might have noticed that most bottles say ‘contains sulphites’ somewhere on the label.

This column is a massive fan of the wines of Spain. In my opinion, Spain currently offers the best value (price versus quality) of any wine-producing nation.

Up until recently my favourite wine trivia question was “what is the world’s most planted grape?” 

APRIL is Real Wine Month which focuses on minimal intervention “natural” wines and also low intervention organic and biodynamic wines.

FROM the 1970s until recently, if someone mentioned Spanish wines your first (and only) thought was Rioja.