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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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An international tasting of eight wines that beautifully demonstrates the ageing potential of Charles Heidsieck's non-vintage champagne, frequently referred to...
Hemming in Asia
Richard looks behind the prices of Asia's ubiquitous champagne. (Interesting that Moët seem to have abandoned flutes in favour of...
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A version of this article, an annual fixture, is published by the Financial Times. Matt Martin took this picture of...
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This is no time to desert the magic combination of wine and carbon dioxide. We present dozens of examples, and...
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A challenge for English sparkling wine reprised.
Five years ago I took part in a blind comparison of six English...
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In the final part of his three-part report on the situation in the Champagne region, Tim Hall of Scala Wine...
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In the second of this three-part report, Tim Hall of Scala Wine does the math(s), after setting the scene yesterday...
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In the first of three reports on the current unprecedented situation in Champagne, Tim Hall of Scala Wine, who specialises...
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18 August 2020 With the harvest already well underway, a deal has been struck between growers and houses. The yield...
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A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Picture of the Abbaye d'Hautvillers by James Bort...
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A comparison of current releases from six of the most admired single-estate producers in Champagne with two similarly styled wines...
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Two of Champagne's most respected chefs de cave and a French Canadian gastro-moleculist have turned their hands and palates to...
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The haunting memories of VE Day evoked last weekend reminded me of a memorable dinner in Paris in 1995 to...
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Don't forget champagne! Some of us are finding it a very real consolation at the moment.
Usually this month champagne...
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Save 20% on a ticket to taste almost 300 champagnes from 56 different producers in London on 25 March. We're...
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EPI – by no means a glamorous name, but one to watch. A version of this article is published by...
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