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The Purple Pages digest - December

7 Jan 2013 by Richard Hemming

DECEMBER was a bumper month on Purple Pages, with over 60 articles published right through Christmas. Here are some of the morsels you might have missed:

Jancis's top 100 sparklings, whites, reds and strong and/or sweet of 2012 (free)
Tasting notes for many delicious wines, including the following treats:

a rare vertical of Champagne Salon
Pinot Noir from Martinborough, and new releases from other regions of New Zealand
Thirty-six of the best South African wines, as tasted by Richard on his recent visit to Cape Town
plus hundreds more notes for wines sold in the UK by these retailers - many of which are available internationally, too:

Marks & Spencer, Oddbins, Berry Bros & Rudd, Corney & Barrow, Laithwaites, Stone Vine & Sun and Jascots

Paul O'Doherty's annual round-up of the year's wine-related books (now free)
Luis on Rioja today (and see also Jancis' views from 2002, linked below)
Alder's American wines of the year
Alex on how not to be a snob
Richard's review of a spooky gastropub in the Cotswolds (free)
Why shipping temperatures matter (free)
Nick on a bright future for restaurants and restaurant-goers in 2013 (free)
Tanya Garnham's vintage in Bierzo chez Descendientes de J Palacios (free)
One of Brunello's foremost estates sabotaged (free)

JANUARY heralds articles on:

Burgundy 2011s - a full report with well over 1,000 tasting notes taken in both London and Burgundy
Brunello di Montalcino 2008 - a full tasting report
Chianti - a possible fiasco?
Stories from the caves and backstreets of the Côte d'Or
Are the 2009 top bordeaux worth the money?

FROM THE ARCHIVE - here are some flashbacks to the world of wine this month 10 years ago:

Jancis trying to determine 'What is rioja?'
A titbit about a polyphenolically enhanced Chardonnay
Nick on the Pio Tosini, pioneer of prosciutto
The thorny issue of adding water to wine

And don't forget ... that our events diary is full of wine-related events at a town near you, including these scheduled for January:

Eight wines from the southern hemisphere at a tasting in Colchester, Essex
A beginner's guide to wine in Glasgow, Scotland
A Pinot Noir party in Wellington, New Zealand
Wine and charcuterie in Edinburgh, Scotland
and Burgundy 2011 previews in London from Genesis and The Burgundy Portfolio

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