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Wine Capital Mainz 2025
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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The last of this week's reports on the 2010 vintage comes from Michael Schmelzer of Monte Bernardi, another usefully talented...
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Australian viticulturist Dr Richard Smart, now resident in the UK, seems unpeturbed by such recent developments as the French vigneron...
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Monty Waldin writes:
My latest book, Monty Waldin's Biodynamic Wine Guide 2011 [to be reviewed, along with the rest of...
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Master of Wine Beverley Blanning (pictured) has just written a usefully fresh and reasonably objective booklet Biodynamics in Wine, published...
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UK specialist organic wine importer Vintage Roots has clearly been checking their biodynamic calendar because I did this tasting on...
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In Berry Bros' premises in St James's, London, towards the end of last year, Alfred Tesseron presented a range of...
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The influence of the moon and the star constellations on how a wine tastes on a particular day has already...
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English-born, Melbourne-based wine writer Max Allen, who is in the process of explaining biodynamics to the Australian wine industry via...
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As promised here on our members' forum to a purple pager based in Sydney, I recently immersed myself in a...
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San Francisco barrel broker Mel Knox wrote this in 2001 and, in the noble spirit of recycling, has sent it...
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Victoria Daskal pauses on her round-the-world trip as part of the OIV’s Master of Science in Wine Management to interview...
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As close students of the subject will know, not least because it has been discussed here and in associated articles...
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Find The Hedonist I may well lead a sheltered life but this is the first wine I have ever seen...
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Paul Howard of www.winealchemy.com has submitted the following report on a recent tasting of some particularly intriguing wines. Frédéric Grappe...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. At lunch after last week’s particularly...
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Visiting a wine producer near Perpignan in the far south of France last August, I was surprised to bump into...
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