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Sweetener in French AOC wines, US diet guidelines updated, New Zealand free-trade deal
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 10 January 2026
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Jancis's diary – November and December 2025
Jet lag, a bad cold, but somehow an awful lot of good wine was enjoyed. This diary is a double helping, covering late October to late December, because this particular...
Jancis Robinson
Friday 2 January 2026
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The greatest-ever champagne vintage?
Andy Howard MW
Monday 15 December 2025
• 2 min read
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Written by Giles Fallowfield. Non-vintage champagne based on the 2009 harvest should be particularly good, even though we may have...
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Written by Giles Fallowfield. Some producers are already pronouncing the 2009 Champagne harvest 'excellent' and comparing it with vintages such...
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The LVMH-owned champagne house Ruinart celebrated the 50th anniversary of their prestige cuvée Dom Ruinart by organising a vertical tasting...
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From €13.29, £17.99, $30.99, NZ$66.99, AU$65 Find Marc Chauvet NV Find Eric Rodez champagnes The British media have recently been...
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Charles Philipponnat was in London on Wednesday night for a dinner organised by Bordeaux Index at The Ledbury, wine lovers'...
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19 Nov – See more details about the composition of Armand de Brignac cuves kindly supplied by Tom Stevenson after...
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Those who read my detailed account of the Great Danish Wine Dinner in Even better 'wines of the century'? will...
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Wriitten by Giles Fallowfield. The 2009 Champagne harvest starts today in some of the grands crus of the Côte des...
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The venerable posh grocer Fortnum & Mason on Piccadilly in London is known for many things – smart tins of...
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17 Jun - Interesting to note that sales of growers' champagnes have been healthier than most in this report on...
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I can’t stress enough what great value is to be found among the better growers’ champagnes – those made by...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.
Who would have thought that worms...
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We may not be buying expensive fizz in anything like the way we did as recently as a year ago...
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Champagne Bollinger presented itself in London yesterday with the chief viticulturist Gilles Descotes and winemaker Mathieu Kauffmann presenting the changes...
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For those who want to make a real fuss of their Valentine tomorrow, here is an amalgamation of notes taken...
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The world's first International Sparkling Wine Symposium will take place in the UK on Wednesday 18 Mar 2009 at Denbies...
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