You've heard about the affinity between regional wine and food. So what about Napa Cabernets and burgers?

Fog, rolling in from the Pacific, tempers the relentless sunshine of California and Chile and allows them to make elegant white wines. Clinton Cawood joins a bunch of sommeliers as they get to grips with some misty Chardonnays

Bancroft adds big-name Rioja producer to its books

For 10 years, lumpy, chunky Aussie Chardonnay was the girl that nobody ever wanted to date – but the slimmer, more elegant post-millennial version is starting to turn heads. Why, Miss Jones… you’re beautiful, says Simon Woods

Uco Valley winery Diamandes now in the UK

A day for Argentina's grape

Ken Forrester creates an exclusive Chenin for the London-based restaurant

Second International Grenache Day to be held on 23 September

Napa has myriad terroirs, dozens of soil profiles and hundreds of producers. So why is it dominated by one-note Cabernet Sauvignons? Simon Woods joins a puzzled group of sommeliers to find out

A successful haul for this must-list variety, with Chile achieving a bit of a David versus Goliath giant-slaying

Aussie Shiraz is rarely cheap now, but a growing elegance saw a big rise in medals this year – and a lot of happy tasters

After a shocking first year in the SWAs, Carmenère found its feet with some style this year, delivering some great wines

Plenty of medals again for Chile, although the judges were most impressed stylistically with Australia and South Africa

Good wines, good prices and a variety of styles, Syrah was one of the stand-out varieties for the New World

Astonishing value for money from the Chileans, as you’d expect, but not enough wines with the wow factor