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Tasting top Chardonnays blind
Take 27 Chardonnay ‘icons’ from around the world and serve them up to 18 accredited tasters … A version of this article is published by the Financial Times . See...
Jancis Robinson
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Waitrose spring 2026 recommendations
Great buys available in the UK and farther afield – including some naturally lower-alcohol wines. Above, left to right: Reon Richter, Leana Coetzee, Mari Branders, Juandre Bruwer – the core...
Andy Howard MW
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Naked Wines, the innovative UK mail-order company started up by Rowan Gormley, ex Virgin Wines, is introducing yet another scheme...
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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...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. The Australian wine industry is in...
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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...
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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...
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The Australians are understandably fed up with all the criticism that their wines have attracted recently. A special feature of...
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Here is the text of a speech given very recently by Brian Croser, leading light of the Australian wine business...
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13 Mar – Please note that I have at last managed to taste the two most impressive Kaesler wines and...
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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...
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In Europe, the enforced shrinkage of EU vineyards summarised in Dec 2007 in EU reform – as good as it...
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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...
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What a shame it is that the global balance of mongering is so askew. Wail as we might, mongering of...
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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...
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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...
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Many worrying months after the departure of the previous CEO Sam Tolley, the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation at last...
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Too much news today! Please stop sending me any so I can get on with writing my next FT article...
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