Every week, we hear conflicting stories about the health benefits of wine - it gives you cancer, it helps you live longer, it's good for you, it's bad for you ... but one thing that appears to be true is that people in areas of the world that grow certain

Supermarkets like to publicise their wine lists twice a year; once in the spring, for the summer market and again in the autumn to highlight their Christmas drinkies. Sainsbury’s held their Spring tasting in the back room of the Delfina Gallery in Bermo

The Champagne Bureau's annual tasting 2009 took place in March in the Banqueting House in Whitehall in London. It was a chance for the Champagne industry to get together and show the year's new wines. I took my grumbling liver to Westminster to find out t