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Highlights from the Sekt show, VinVin and the Biodynamic Wine Fair in Rheinhessen’s central city. In the image above we are instructed to 'Always follow the bubbles' into the Sektbörse...
Paula Redes Sidore
Thursday 3 July 2025
• 8 min read
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Quintessa and biodynamics in Napa
Jancis Robinson
Thursday 16 May 2024
• 4 min read
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See our guide to this week's comprehensive stocktake on the extent of organic and biodynamic viticulture in the world today...
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We write a lot about alternative methods of growing vines to the mid-twentieth-century norm of using agrochemical additions, but how...
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There’s no such thing as a bad Monty. It’s like John Lewis or Father Christmas: one of those reassuring, cockle-warming...
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Another titbit for those entirely uninterested in Bordeaux.... While Vino Nobile di Montepulciano in general seems a little inert of...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See more on this topic in...
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Why on earth are there two fairs promoting natural wine taking place at the same time in London this May...
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'At the level we are, it’s much easier for quality to go down than up', said Paul Pontallier, the general...
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For two ideological adversaries, they seemed to agree on an awful lot. When they didn't, the essence of their conflict...
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After Legeron and Maule had opened the NEW11 – Natural European Wine 2011 – conference, the stage was taken by...
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Update 5 Dec 2011: The WSET has filmed the debate (see the news from the forum) and Richard Hemming gives...
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I'm just back from a great tour of Australia, on which I will be reporting in much more detail. On...
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On Friday, in my introduction to Majestic helps mop up Marlborough Sauvignon, a collection of reviews of wines currently being...
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Later that day: quite coincidentally, Woollaston have today announced the appointment of a new winemaker. Shane Munn, previously of Millton...
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Our series of Monty Waldin's profiles of leading New Zealand wine producers continues today with Te Whare Ra in Marlborough...
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Our series of Monty Waldin's profiles of leading New Zealand wine producers today features Quartz Reef in Central Otago. Monty...
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Our series of Monty Waldin's profiles of leading New Zealand wine producers continues with Huia in Marlborough. Monty is the...
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