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Country guides, deep regional coverage, grape variety profiles, wine styles, food pairings, wine school and travel — all in one editorial reference.
Wine Regions
Explore the world's wine regions
Bordeaux
Bordeaux is the world's most famous wine region and the benchmark for fine red blends. Left-bank gravel favours Cabernet Sauvignon…
Burgundy
Burgundy is the spiritual home of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, where a precise hierarchy of Grand Cru, Premier Cru and village viney…
Champagne
Champagne is the world's benchmark sparkling wine, made from chalk-grown grapes in a cool, marginal climate. Its traditional secon…
Tuscany
Tuscany is Italy's most famous wine region, built on Sangiovese and cypress-lined hills. From cherry-fresh Chianti Classico to pow…
Piedmont
Piedmont is the home of Nebbiolo, the grape behind Italy's most serious wines: Barolo and Barbaresco. It also produces everyday Ba…
Rioja
Rioja is Spain's most famous wine region, built on Tempranillo and a centuries-old love affair with oak. Its ageing categories — C…
Grape Varieties
Know your grapes
54 grape varieties covered — from the classics to the curious.
Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon is the world's most famous red grape, the backbone of Bordeaux's great blended wi…
Chardonnay
Chardonnay is the world's most planted white grape and a remarkable blank canvas for terroir and win…
Malbec
Malbec is Argentina's signature grape and the country's greatest wine success story — elevated from …
Pinot Grigio / Pinot Gris
Pinot Grigio (Pinot Gris in French) produces two very different styles. Italian Pinot Grigio is ligh…
Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir is Burgundy's great gift to the wine world — light in colour yet profound in flavour, hau…
Riesling
Riesling is one of the world's greatest white grapes — aromatic, intensely acidic, and profoundly ag…
Sauvignon Blanc
Sauvignon Blanc is celebrated for its electric, zesty character and unmistakable aromatics — goosebe…
Syrah / Shiraz
Syrah (known as Shiraz in Australia) is one of the world's great black grapes, capable of extraordin…
Wine School
Learn the fundamentals
Wine can seem intimidating. Our school cuts straight to what matters.
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