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Bringing together the threads of two recent articles, Beaujolais 2009 – buy, buy! and Fine selections from the Wine Society, here's a range of Beaujolais 2009s (and one 2007) available...
Julia Harding MW
Monday 18 October 2010
• 2 min read
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The Oregon Wine Board provided this detailed 2009 harvest report earlier this month. The growing-season weather round-up is followed by...
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Michael Schmidt, who last month gave us an excellent and detailed account of the 2008 and 2007 Grosse Gewächse German...
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Paul Symington of the Symington Family Estates (Graham's, Dow's, Warre's) sends this report on the 2009 vintage in the Douro...
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Written by Giles Fallowfield. Some producers are already pronouncing the 2009 Champagne harvest 'excellent' and comparing it with vintages such...
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Languedoc News, published by the trade organisation the Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins du Languedoc, reports a small crop but what...
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Here's the interim official report from the Austrian Wine Marketing Board – official but reasonably candid. And see this forum...
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The CIVB, the official Bordeaux wine organisation, has released its initial report on the 2009 growing season and harvest –...
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Klaus Peter Keller of Rheinhessen sent these pictures – the view from the Frauenberg vineyard and some super-ripe, super-healthy Pinot...
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Here's a brief report direct from Burgundy’s heartland, where cellars and vineyards are currently rattling and humming with the sights...
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With the possibly excellent (although of course it's still in the lap of the weather gods for later-ripening varieties such...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. Read our members' forum to find...
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Wriitten by Giles Fallowfield. The 2009 Champagne harvest starts today in some of the grands crus of the Côte des...
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Frenchman Philippe Rolet, general manager of Alta Vista, sends this report of their experience of the 2008/09 growing season and...
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Murray Paterson of the viticultural consultancy Vinifera Services sends the following report on the 2009 grape harvest in Marlborough, where...
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The Australian wine industry, deeply concerned about plummeting demand for its wines outside Australia, is understandably fixated by the facts...
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Weather, weather everywhere.... Here in Central Otago it’s rather cooler and cloudier than this refugee from the northern hemisphere had...
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