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Plus, Telmont becomes Champagne’s first Regenerative Organic Certified producer, Argentina repeals wine regulations and the EU rules on de-alcoholised wine. New Zealand’s free-trade deal with India On 22 December, New...
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Saturday 10 January 2026
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What better way to celebrate a brother-in-law’s birthday than to choose an extremely glamorous fizz as this...
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Next month is wedding month in the northern hemisphere and the peak of what is known in Britain as ‘the...
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1 Apr: Note the excellent price for Roederer just added to the list at the bottom of this article, and...
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The following are tasting notes on about 80 non vintage champagnes, including all the most common brands (though not buyers’...
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This Saturday I’ll be publishing a major survey of non vintage champagnes and tasting notes and scores on about 80...
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See Champagne shootout – 95 v 96 for an account of the inspiration for and organisation of this blind tasting...
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Dom Pérignon 1996 has just been released, along with 1998 vintage Moët in both colours – rosé apparently being the...
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It's our wedding anniversary today – our 22nd in fact. So to mark this particularly two-ish celebration, I'm going to...
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This current champagne release from Krug is absolutely stunning. I urge you to seek it out if you are a...
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My colleague Tom Stevenson produces even more books than I do and one of his most useful is his annual...
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I wrote last year about how promising the 1996 vintage looks and now many more houses have released theirs. Read...
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Quality varies enormously, as usual. Look out for my forthcoming notes on many recent releases of the exceptional 1996 vintage...
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It was notable at yesterday's annual giant champagne tasting in London that a very high proportion of the wines on...
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When researching my annual Christmas wine features for the Financial Times, I was struck by how stable prices of most...
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A certain amount of serious champagne tasting in October and November this year hints at various vintage characteristics (for the...
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See wine news for my overview of a fascinating recent tasting of champagnes from these two unusually good vintages. The...
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