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We Masters of Wine went back to school last month with an AGM preceded by a tasting in Vintners' Hall (shown here) of some of Austria’s finest wines. This was held in honour of Pepi Schuller... |
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This week at the vineyard, the work was exactly the same as last week. To wit: tying young vines on to stakes. It’s about as mundane as it sounds and funnily enough, therefore,... |
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There is a quite staggering amount of stuff about wine out there on the internet. Many of you may well surf far more energetically than I do and be even more aware of this than I am. But here are... |
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See below for my tasting notes on about 135 wines from Waitrose, Britain’s supermarket with the best reputation for fine wine and for employing the most Masters of Wine to choose them.... |
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See also German 2007 tasting notes - L-Z . Below is the first half of our roughly 450 tasting notes on Germany’s attractive and useful 2007 vintage. Where both Julia and... |
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This tasting at Schloss Johannisberg proved the greatness of Riesling. I will describe more of the background to it on Saturday.The tasting notes appear below in the order the wines were... |
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Mitch Tonks has been filleting, cooking and selling fish while running courses inspiring amateurs on how to cook fish with greater confidence for the past 14 years. So it came as... |
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Writing my 200+ tasting notes on current-release Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignons is an interesting exercise when one knows the notes will be viewed by a readership wider than Americans... |
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See also my overview Australia changes its focus , Australian Rieslings and Australian Semillons . Below are tasting notes on about 250 mostly really interesting... |
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This is one chunk of Julia’s and my notes on more than 1,250 samples of 2006 burgundy written either in Burgundy in December 2007 or at one of the rash of tastings held in London in the... |
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Quite a proportion of you in our recent survey suggested that the site might be improved by having more than one forum. In particular, some members felt that the regular forum could be a bit... |
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3 Sep update - see below. Tony Keys and Jenny Stonier produce The Key Report , an independent, subscription-based newsletter which plops into my inbox every week. Today’s... |
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The following is an alphabetical listing of all the entries on various brandies (armagnac, cognac, grappa, pisco, etc) which appeared in the 2 nd edition of The Oxford Companion to Wine... |
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Please note that you can now send the articles that appear on this site to a friend. Just click on the little envelope logo at the top of the relevant page on the right and fill in the boxes that... |
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Carey Hiles of Subhub is hard at work on a new, much more efficient tasting notes database and associated tasting notes search . Do let us know if you have any specific ideas for... |
