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We've written about this one ad nauseam already. A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times . For full tasting notes see The Wine Society's finds...
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 12 April 2025
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The Wine Society's finds – spring 2025
Jancis Robinson
Friday 11 April 2025
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Bottle lightweighting gains support, South Africa's rising exports, new smoke-taint study
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 1 February 2025
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And the Porto Protocol’s new guide to environmentally friendly wine packaging, pictured above right.
Before I get to global news...
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And Yiannis Boutaris, Greek wine icon, has died at age 82. He's shown above in his vineyard at Kir-Yianni in...
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Plus an update on Santorini's 2024 harvest; news at Australian Vintage and Naked Wines; and an exciting outcome for Swedish...
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Plus relief for British Columbia wineries reeling from this winter’s devastating freeze; a new super-light sparkling wine bottle and news...
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Many winemakers have agreed to reduce bottle weights; will they now agree to a standardised bottle? And will bottle manufacturers...
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Plenty of value – and laudable action on bottle weight – from Britain's dominant supermarket.
Jancis writes I was pretty...
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Plus the first viable, scalable, wine-bottle reuse company in the Americas. The Revino bottle above will start appearing on shelves...
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The warming climate continues to wreak havoc on wine regions around the world, as evidenced by the photo above of...
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Napa’s vignerons are proud of their 2021s, coming between the often smoke-tainted 2020 vintage and the 2022, compromised by punishing...
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Lots of positive news this week, from French farmers' rights to Australian initiatives in sustainable packaging and Napa's 2022 vintage...
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A new initiative set to reduce wine-bottle weights considerably was launched with an online presentation yesterday, and proved extremely popular...
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A selection of new wines and new vintages and, as ever, lots of good-value wines. Plus outstanding Malbec from the...
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The third tasting article based on this year’s edition of this South African wine competition, together with an overview of...
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For supermarket value, avoid the most expensive wines. Some of the best bargains currently are pictured above. A version of...
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8 June 2023 We don’t publish many heartfelt pleas but this is one worth republishing free. There may be encouraging...
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14 July 2023 As a result of its detailed Alternative Packaging for Wine report published in May, The Wine Society...
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