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Sparkling wines for the 2025 festive season
Top tips for those seeking a bit of sparkle for the holidays this Christmas and New Year. From £14 to £1,438 a bottle. A version of this article is published...
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 22 November 2025
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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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Berry's wine tasting for The Drinks Trust
Team JR
Thursday 30 October 2025
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times . More detailed tasting notes on Purple Pages, many...
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There's everything here from the cheapest and quite cheerful fizz (in the Other group below) to the most sumptuous of...
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7 October 2021 To celebrate the US release of No Time to Die , we're republishing this survey of 007...
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Sara Underdown is wine writer specialising in champagne and contributes to a number of print and online publications including Delicious...
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Numbers are becoming more and more significant in Champagne. But there are many non-champagnes among these 86 tasting notes on...
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Many an established name in English sparkling wine, tasted blind – with a few champagnes. See also part 1 in...
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Tim Hall of Scala Wine, an avid Champagne-watcher, gives the low-down on Russia's recent wine-labelling diktat.
On 2 July, while...
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This year's releases of Dom Pérignon, Cristal and Krug. Wallets at the ready! Wine students will learn much from the...
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This is not an article about sparkling wine, but about some groundbreaking still 2018s. A version of this article is...
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Coteaux Champenois inspected, if not uniformly enjoyed.
As I do every now and then, I took part in a tasting...
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A mixed bag of sparkling wines including two(!) Bollinger RD 1976s, English fizz and an exceptional Spanish discovery. Above, the...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. I asked the subject of this profile to provide...
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… plus three English offerings, with Valentine's Day in prospect.
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