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German wine specialist Michael Schmidt very kindly offered to share with us his tasting notes taken at the official launch of the top German wines of the 2007 vintage in Wiesbaden at the end of... |
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2007 Very cool, grey summer left grapes struggling to ripen properly. 2006 Relatively soft wines for medium-term drinking. 2005 Almost great but rain at harvest time... |
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I think that Riesling is indisputably the greatest white wine grape in the world but many people think I am mad. The problem I think, is that Riesling has so much character compared to... |
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This section of links & addresses holds details of websites and other publications and similarly useful outfits and operators mentioned in the editorial pages of this site.... |
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From the moment I was handed the single sheet menu at A16, an extremely fashionable and popular restaurant on Chestnut Street in the very cool Marina district of San Francisco close to the Golden... |
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Jancis on her life in wine... After a virtually wine-free childhood and teenage years in a village of 46 people in... |
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Earlier this year, I compared working in a McLaren Vale winery to trench warfare: relentless, gruelling physical toil. Having survived that, I find myself six months later... |
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I sat with two Australian winemakers in Rowley Leigh’s Café Anglais last week cursing Bridget Jones. Phil Sexton, Steve Flamsteed and I, plus 14 bottles of wine, had met up to... |
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I suffered Haut-Brion poisoning on Monday, chiefly because of the over-generous provision of magnums of same the night before: a magnum of each of 1983, 1978, 1970 and 1964 for a relatively... |
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To find other Bordeaux 2007 tasting notes click here . There are almost as many wines in this collection of tasting notes from the Médoc as in yesterday’s St-Emilion... |
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After several weeks in detention as a result of a China Customs investigation into under-payment of China’s as valorem wine duty, the head of China’s largest wine importer, American... |
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South Africa 2007: Introduction Wines of South Africa / SAWIS A cool growing season produced exciting white and red wines after the cold winter and favourable climatic conditions of... |
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Something very strange happened last week. I had three lunches. For months, especially when updating a big reference book, I can go without any. Here are two interviews recorded in the extremely... |
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I am regularly asked on the forum whether I give wine courses or classes. The answer is no since I really don’t have the time between tasting and writing for this site, writing and... |
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In the February issue of Wine & Spirit , the monthly magazine currently on sale in the UK at W H Smith and so for which I first tried desperately to write about wine back in 1975, is a... |
