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From $9.99, £8.99, Aus$17.99 Find this wine Sitting here in San Francisco, having just flown across the Pacific from Beijing for a couple of days’ worth of celebrations to mark Ridge... |
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The Australian wine industry is in recriminatory mood. After years of double-digit growth, exports, along with Australian wine’s reputation, have been plummeting. Some professional... |
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As highlighted in my recent blind tasting of 50 Chardonnays from around the world, Jacob's Creek versions are a lot better than you might think (well, I was surprised, anyway). But the day... |
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Phil Laffer, chief winemaker of Jacob’s Creek et al , is a bit gloomy. Not only does he put his heart and soul into making the best wine he possibly can, only to see it being discounted like... |
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The Australians are understandably fed up with all the criticism that their wines have attracted recently. A special feature of this year's generic tasting at the Saatchi Gallery in London was a... |
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Here is the text of a speech given very recently by Brian Croser, leading light of the Australian wine business, to Australia’s Agricultural and Resource Economics Society in conjunction with... |
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13 Mar - Please note that I have at last managed to taste the two most impressive Kaesler wines and have added notes on them below. Highlights of yesterday’s Australian Annual Trade... |
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From Au$47 Find this wine Last week my bloodstream was replaced by a stream of 2008 burgundy in my veins. (We are just about to publish more than 1,350 tasting notes on... |
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In Europe, the enforced shrinkage of EU vineyards summarised in Dec 2007 in EU reform - as good as it gets is already having an obvious effect, while the signs are that in the much freer... |
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As British Airways, like so many of the world's established airlines, grapples with what seem to be almost intractable problems, I thought it appropriate to publish some tasting notes from the... |
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What a shame it is that the global balance of mongering is so askew. Wail as we might, mongering of fish and cheese becomes scarcer whilst mongering of war and hate seems to proliferate. If only... |
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From £19.99, $37, Aus$45 Find this wine I believe we have a truly ground-breaking wine here. Mike Brown of Gemtree Vineyards in McLaren Vale is one of the scores if not hundreds of... |
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As Australia's official wine organisations publish a report claiming that the country has a wine surplus equivalent to 75% of total production, and as British wine writer Andrew Jefford... |
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Many worrying months after the departure of the previous CEO Sam Tolley, the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation at last appointed a new one, Andrew Cheesman, who was Petaluma's accountant and... |
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Too much news today! Please stop sending me any so I can get on with writing my next FT article. The leading Australian wine magazine, Gourmet Traveller WINE , held its big annual... |
