In an around Burgundy we score a new grape and meet several generations of wine makers

There is plenty of wine between London and Bilbao and we sniffed a little as we went past

The Burgundy crop of 2016 was badly damaged by frost so we ventured further south in search of the Rhône, the sun and, as it turned out, the wind

The wines of South West France are quite mysterious and hard to find in September

The growers were depressed by the weather, English football fans were depressed as normal but buying wine was as fun as ever