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Hail forces early start for Lafite as Cos takes a battering
17 Jul 2014 – We are going to preface the titles of our Throwback Thursday republications with 'TT' if the time lag is substantial in an attempt to make it...
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Thursday 17 July 2014
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Loire Valley 2011 – final vintage report
Charles (left, clearly enjoying the harvest) and Philippa Sydney, wine brokers in the Loire Valley with a passion for the region and extreme determination to support its wine growers, have...
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Tuesday 13 March 2012
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The word most often used by the people I talked to when discussing the 2011 vintage in Spain was dry...
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Fabien Moreau of Domaine Christian Moreau Père et Fils, Guillaume Gicqueau-Michel of Domaine Louis Michel et Fils and Sandrine Audegond...
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'Mildew, botrytis (pictured, by Koolbe), blue mould, green mould, you name it, it was everywhere. This is the most difficult...
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Ask most Australian winemakers about their 2011 vintage, and a dark glower spreads across their features. After a decade of...
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The 2011 vintage in Italy has turned out to be the smallest vintage the country has produced since the 1940s...
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Plumpton graduate Janette Kelly (pictured) of the organic Meopham Vineyard in Kent sends this supplement to my overview of the...
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Graham Nutter of Ch St-Jacques d'Albas sends us this heartfelt report on a difficult vintage in the Minervois, Languedoc. The...
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The 2011 vintage seems to be going really rather well in Germany. See below for some recent reports, the most...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.
People often ask me whether I'd...
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While Italy has barely finished harvesting what is generally considered a hot and early vintage, news has emerged that, against...
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Yesterday Véronique Sanders of Ch Haut-Bailly in the Graves region of Bordeaux was in London, showing all of her 21st...
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European vintage reports are now flooding in thick and fast. The following account of the Loire Valley's prospects for 2011...
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A couple of weeks ago I received the first impressions of the 2011 vintage in Montalcino from Katia Nussbaum, who...
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The 2011 grape harvest across Europe has been a varied one, with grape health threatened in many areas thanks to...
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As the 2011 grape harvest rather demandingly proceeds in the northern hemisphere, celebrated Mendoza winemaker Roberto de la Mota of...
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Last week saw some pretty awful weather throughout many of northern Europe's major wine regions. V irtually the whole of...
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