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Gippsland comes of age
This cool-climate Australian region is finally living up to its early promise. Winegrowers Patrick Sullivan and Megan McLaren are pictured above (credit: Guy Lavoipierre). When I moved to Melbourne in...
Max Allen
Friday 20 February 2026
• 2 min read
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Côte d'Or 2024 – after the misery, an overview
Matthew Hayes
Friday 19 December 2025
• 1 min read
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19 December 2019 To complement today's tasting article describing how 2003 and 2004 red burgundies taste today, we are republishing...
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Some thoughts on the meaning of cool prompted by an unexpectedly warm celebration of Chardonnay in Niagara-on-the-Lake. See also Cool-climate...
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A host of cool-climate Chardonnays, over 100 of them.
For the background to these tasting notes and a discussion of...
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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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A classy cool-climate Australian Chardonnay, not an oxymoron.
From 449 Swedish kronor, AU$72, €46.95, £49.99, SG$79, HK$500, $71.99
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The first of this week's three-part report on the Master of Wine tour of New Zealand earlier this year concentrates...
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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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Update on the many recent developments in Oregon wine – not least those heatwaves. Josh Bergström was in London last...
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The final instalment of this four-part history of California's most popular grape variety. See also part 1, part 2 and...
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See part 1, part 2 and part 4 of this four-part history of California's most popular grape variety.
The globalisation...
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See part 1, part 3, and part 4 of this four-part account of California's most-planted grape.
The building of California...
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This is the first of a four-part account of California's most-planted vine variety. See part 2, part 3 and part...
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Another exceptional, burgundy-beating New Zealand Chardonnay.
From £21.95, AU$28.50, $30.73, NZ$33, 25.85 Swiss francs, €27.50, HK$208, CA$40, SG$48, 2,294 Russian...
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4 August 2020 See this update. It transpires that Gingin, Mendoza and OF are in fact three different clones of...
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White burgundy apart, it's amazing how many of the greatest Chardonnays today are grown in the southern hemisphere. Seen here...
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Jancis reports on a world first: a hugely impressive set of verticals from a source of impeccable Chardonnays, in New...
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