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Berry's wine tasting for The Drinks Trust
Team JR
Thursday 30 October 2025
• 1 min read
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Bordeaux 2025 harvest report
James Lawther MW
Thursday 9 October 2025
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An exceptional sweet wine made especially irresistible at the price. From £21.76, €27.60 and $264 a case of six bottles...
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A word of advice: give 2021 red bordeaux a wide berth. See also Jancis’s tasting articles on whites, right-bank reds...
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And news of the passing of Campanian trailblazer Walter Mastroberardino, shown above with his children Daniela and Paolo. Before I...
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This concludes our coverage of this year’s Southwold-on-Thames appraisal of the 2021 vintage. The tasters agreed that this was the...
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One of the most disappointing collections of red bordeaux in the annual Southwold-on-Thames series. See also this guide to our...
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The start of this year's Southwold tasting was the best bit. See detailed coverage of over 180 reds tomorrow and...
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Plus a promising new environmentally friendly technology for combating downy mildew, a common vineyard scourge around the world. Before I...
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The combination of an exciting vintage and low prices should be more appealing than it clearly is. High-scoring c ru...
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Not many professional tastings but an unusual number of lunches.
For logistical reasons I have to finish my diary a...
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Don't pour that ancient bottle of wine down the sink! Some of the corks from an evening described below that...
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Red wines may have the upper hand in this warm vintage, but there are whites worth seeking out and some...
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A first look at the 2022s in bottle at the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux tasting in London. Come...
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Tastings, dinners, films, and a Tube incident. Above, Lille at night. There was much less travel in November, though I...
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So which of these vintages is the best and which is the worst? JR and laptop bottom left of this...
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So why exactly are so many top French wine producers choosing to invest in American wineries? A much shorter version...
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Both AXA and the Cathiards of Château Smith Haut Lafitte showed off their Napa Valley wines recently – one with...
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