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Berry's wine tasting for The Drinks Trust
Team JR
Thursday 30 October 2025
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Bordeaux 2025 harvest report
James Lawther MW
Thursday 9 October 2025
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What to buy en primeur in this challenging vintage? Our extensive coverage will help you make savvy buying decisions. Gavin...
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Success for Sémillon and Sauvignon Blanc? Sometimes – let James be your guide. For his notes on 2023 reds, see...
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The good news is that en primeur bordeaux prices have been slashed by as much as 40%. The bad news...
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2023 was challenging for Merlot, especially, but James finds the bright spots at this year's en primeur tastings. Above, another...
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Cabernet Sauvignon might be king in this vintage – and James finds the sweet spot. Above, the flags are out...
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Single-quinta vintage port announcements are a rare bright spot in a week of frost reports and new data on falling...
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A quick-fire en primeur campaign has begun – but are the wines worth buying, and will the price be right...
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Buyers and collectors get ready: en primeur bordeaux tastings are underway, and declarations for 2022 vintage port are trickling out...
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Ahead of the en primeur tastings, Gavin Quinney of Château Bauduc presents a detailed review of the 2023 growing season...
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Jan-Erik Paulson, semi-retired from his fine-wine company Rare Wine, has offered to share with us his experience of verticals of...
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Plus some good news from Portugal. (Above, the waterfront in Vila Nova de Gaia.) But first, some exciting events coming...
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Ben Howkins, wine advisor to Lord Rothschild at Waddesdon from 1992, provides a personal tribute to a deceptively low-key member...
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Recuperation and an injection of 74-year-old camaraderie. Left to right above, Joanna Delaforce, Tim Littler, Tony Stebbings, Tim How, David...
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The second and final part of a review of 118 wines tasted in London earlier this month, all but a...
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Hot on the heels of the Southwold blind tasting of the 2020s last month comes this review of 118 wines...
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In her final report from the Southwold tasting, Julia reviews the wines of the left bank, where Cabernet Sauvignon is...
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