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Blind tasting, part 9 – Riesling
How to identify this characterful variety in its various guises, from Germany and elsewhere. Today’s lesson is devoted to one of the wine world’s most cherished varieties: Riesling. It’s also...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
• 14 min read
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3 Jul - For today's Throwback Thursday article, we are sharing Max Allen's latest bi-monthly report from Australia, a particularly...
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At the launch of Graham's Ne Oublie last week I was asked by a Portuguese television interviewer what I thought...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times in 2009. 9 May 2014 -...
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Australia is not exactly famous for Merlot. Shiraz is of course its signature red wine grape and Cabernet Sauvignon its...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.
Pascal Marchand must be one of...
Max on Oz
Crikey. Has it really been almost 25 years since Langton's Fine Wine Auctions compiled its first classification of Australian wines...
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See also Marchand's bi-hemispherical observations.The era of flying winemakers may be on the wane now that virtually every winemaker, wherever...
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11 July 2014 - see Fongyee Walker's report of the launch of Chandon in Ningxia on our forum. This is...
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For Cloudy Bay and cousins, an article about what Jean-Guillaume Prats did after he left Ch Cos d'Estournel last year...
Wines of the week
From Aus$8.99, €9.60, £6.66 Find this wine Well, here's a surprise! An Australian Chardonnay from one of the worst vintages...
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It was the ampoule that really finished me off. I've always felt rather ambivalent about Penfolds' marketing – on the...
Max on Oz
'Dad thinks we're a bunch of f*ck'n' hippies', smiles Ben Paxton through his bushranger beard as he pours me a...
Tasting articles
You may not believe this but some wine producers, particularly those who are part of big companies with deep pockets...
Max on Oz
I don't believe this. It's Christmas Day and I'm sitting in my Melbourne back yard under the midday glare of...
Book reviews
Paul O'Doherty reviews the latest crop of wine books. Wines of the New South Africa – Tradition and Revolution Tim...
Wines of the week
From $13.99, Aus$17.39, €11.80, £10.99, NZ$22.99 Find this wine The 2011 grape harvest was billed as the vintage from hell...
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