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Wine discoveries – February 2026
A flurry of wines to chase the winter blues away. Above, Ina and Heiko Bamberger, makers of one such wine, a terrific German sparkler reviewed below (credit: Lucie Greiner). February...
Team JR
Tuesday 3 March 2026
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Margaret River v the world
From a forest of wine glasses, a comprehensive exploration of Margaret River’s best bottles and their international competitors. Including a preview of some of the beauties being poured at our...
Richard Hemming MW
Monday 23 February 2026
• 2 min read
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Brand new MW Yiannis Karakasis (right) and Grigoris Michailos (left), aka the Wine Commanders, are founders of the independent wine...
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20 Aug 2015 Richard spotted this vintage article, written in late 2001. It's rather fun to re-read it today and...
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Jancis writes In June I had the great pleasure of tasting more than 30 of Penfolds top wines, including the...
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‘We’re consuming about a fifth of the entire UK allocation today', was the disarming introduction to a recent tasting conducted...
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This is a version of an article also published by the Financial Times. Independence Day weekend seems as good a...
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We don't very often write about an individual importer, preferring to group tasting notes by region or style. But sometimes...
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As a complement to today's collection of tasting notes on Jura wines, I thought it might be interesting to publish...
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Walk into the cavernous Yangarra winery shed in McLaren Vale during the middle of vintage and the first thing you...
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'High-class Chardonnay with high-class winemaking' is the conclusion to my tasting...
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On Saturday I’ll be surveying how the wine scene has changed over the last 30 years, so I have been...
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Christmas is not my favourite time of year. I cannot blame it on some childhood trauma – unless it is...
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The Saar supremo Egon Müller of Scharzhofberg fame, winner of the 2015 Winemakers' Winemaker Award, and his business partners Michael...
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19 May This wine has just been awarded Best Australian Red Wine at the International Wine Challenge. From £23.49*, AU$64.95...
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Wine Australia, the generic body that represents Australian wine in the UK, is holding a barbecue on Sunday 17 May...
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The following sad news has just reached us via Australian wine specialist Craig Smith and Andy Sparrow of Bibendum. Bob...
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A love of the alternative varieties that have the potential to make excellent wine has in no way diminished my...
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