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Champagne’s first Voltis harvest, tariff effects, ancient Turkish wine facility unearthed
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 1 November 2025
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BC strike, UK duty hike results, UN alcohol and health guidelines
And a new EU proposal to develop faster and clearer procedures to benefit the agricultural industry. Plus an extension on importing grapes for Canadian wine and a slew of exciting...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 26 September 2025
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Phylloxera hits the Canaries, US alcohol consumption plummets, harvest 2025 starts
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 15 August 2025
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Canadian wine producers are getting very bold, planning a major tasting of what they reckon are the best Ontario Chardonnays...
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Spare a thought for the visitors to the current Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Not only is there...
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‘The people have spoken and the Ontario wine industry appears to have listened.’ So begins a report in yesterday’s Canadian...
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Although the US is now one of the three most successful exporters of wine to the UK, thanks chiefly to...
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Fewer than one in five Canadian wine drinkers can recognise and correctly understand the term 'Cellared in Canada', according to...
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After all the fuss made on this site about the thoroughly misleading labelling and marketing of 'Cellared in Canada' wines...
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The following is the text of a letter, somewhat desperate in tone, from the Ontario member of parliament closest to...
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I have just received this encouraging news from the authorities in Ontario in response to our campaign to clean up...
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The good old Vancouver Sun has been keeping up the pressure on the big wine companies in Canada to make...
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27 Sep – See response from LCBO below. Can a saga gather steam? I'm not sure, but I am sure...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. Around the table at Gyoza King...
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Here are my collected tasting notes from around 100 local wines I tasted when on a private trip to the...
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From £15.94, Can$26.35, €20 Find Closson Chase Find Le Clos Jordanne Quite unintentionally, this seems to be evolving into a...
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22 Sept 2009 – read an update on this issue in our members' forum. I'll be publishing my tasting notes...
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Just trying to overcome jetlag, the price to be paid for a great trip to the West Coast of North...
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22 Jul update – By the time I flew out of Okanagan yesterday late afternoon, all the fires seemed to...
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