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The greatest-ever champagne vintage?
A comparative tasting of champagne from the highly acclaimed 1996 vintage and the overshadowed 1995. And a daring way to remove a recalcitrant champagne cork. Was 1996 the greatest-ever champagne...
Andy Howard MW
Monday 15 December 2025
• 4 min read
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Sparkling wines for the 2025 festive season
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 22 November 2025
• 2 min read
Wine news in 5
Champagne’s first Voltis harvest, tariff effects, ancient Turkish wine facility unearthed
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 1 November 2025
• 1 min read
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Three great growers – all very strong characters – who specialise in Chardonnay-based wines of real interest: Agrapart, Ulysse Collin...
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It is not known by all champagne lovers that the family company that owns and runs Laurent-Perrier also owns super-luxurious...
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The first of many reports on what is going on in the rapidly evolving Champagne region at the moment concentrates...
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Worshipping at the altar of non-vintage champagne...
Tyson Stelzer is an Australian wine writer with a particular interest in screwcaps...
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A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times . See also my tasting notes on more...
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Tim Hall of Scala Wine reports on a polarisation of the producers of grower champagne, and singles out his favourites...
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Tim Hall of Scala Wine tries to summarise what tasting more than 400 champagnes, mainly those of genuine growers, taught...
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As usual, Tim Hall of Scala Wine has covered Champagne Week in the Champagne region for us. First, a look...
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A version of this article on wines that have been transformed is published by the Financial Times. One obvious sign...
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A pot pourri of blends of wine and carbon dioxide from all over Europe (including England) plus one South American...
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An unexpected result from a blind comparison of vintage-dated Bolly ... plus a short report on yesterday's UK launch of...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Two of the wine world’s most important luminaries have...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Picture by Matt Martin. All of the 26 wines...
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Another blind comparison between the best of English wine and, this time, the best of Champagne.
The day after the...
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Jancis forces down six vintages of Cristal. There was one week last month when I attended three different champagne tastings...
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Every one of Richard Geoffroy's babies sampled. See also Two men we will miss . I had the great honour...
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