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Ronan Sayburn MS, Sarah Abbott MW and Hannah Tovey at Icons tastings 2026
Free for all 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...

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Tasting articles 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...

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Free for all 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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Wines of the week 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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Free for all This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. The Australian wine industry is in...
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Tasting articles 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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Don't quote me 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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Tasting articles The Australians are understandably fed up with all the criticism that their wines have attracted recently. A special feature of...
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Free for all Here is the text of a speech given very recently by Brian Croser, leading light of the Australian wine business...
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Tasting articles 13 Mar – Please note that I have at last managed to taste the two most impressive Kaesler wines and...
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Wines of the week 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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Inside information In Europe, the enforced shrinkage of EU vineyards summarised in Dec 2007 in EU reform – as good as it...
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Tasting articles 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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Don't quote me What a shame it is that the global balance of mongering is so askew. Wail as we might, mongering of...
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Wines of the week 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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Free for all 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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Don't quote me Many worrying months after the departure of the previous CEO Sam Tolley, the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation at last...
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Free for all Too much news today! Please stop sending me any so I can get on with writing my next FT article...
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