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Victoria Daskal pauses on her round-the-world trip as part of the OIV’s Master of Science in Wine Management to interview Mimi Gatens, director of sustainability at Benziger Family...

Penfolds have announced the dates for this year’s ‘premium and complementary’ after-sales service for anyone with a bottle of Penfolds’ red wine over 15 years old. ...

You may wonder why there have been so few releases of the 2007 bordeaux this week (only Evangile, a cool £850 a dozen at J&B)– or if you operate in or around the wine trade, you...

The International Wine Challenge and the even longer-running UK-based International Wine & Spirit Competition have both just announced this year’s results, presumably to coincide with...

There may not have been many Spaniards in attendance - as Jancis recounts in Torres a lone Spaniard on climate change – but Patricia Stefanowicz MW (possibly better known to many Purple...

In 2007, for the first time ever, there are two winners of the annual international travel bursary that is the Geoffrey Roberts Award . Florida-based geography teacher Richard Villadoniga ,...

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I thought purple pagers might be interested to see the questions in this year’s Master of Wine exams held last week in London, Sydney and Napa, and Siobhan Turner of the Institute of MWs...

Andrew McKinna, Bermuda: Hope you have a breeze to provide relief from the heat in your corner of the south of France: everyone we talk to from California to New York to Bordeaux seems...

David Schildknecht, OH:   "Willie Lebus’s main criticism of sommeliers," Nick writes in Secrets of wine in restaurants , "was that ... they...

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David Schildknecht, OH:   If this Michael O’Mahoney's paper at MW Symposium becomes available please let me know as I was very intrigued by your remarks. You wrote...

Neville Blech, Bacchus and Comus, London SW7:   I have been away in Italy this last two weeks, researching for a book on travel and taste on Italy.  Philip Williamson...