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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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Jancis writes In Pursuit of Balance, the group of California wine producers promoting refined, not that expensive, Pinot and Chardonnay...
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This is the first of a series of articles about the exciting wines of Santa Barbara County. Santa Barbara County...
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A slightly shorter version of this article is also published by the Financial Times. See our recent collection of tasting...
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See also 44 tasting notes in Willamette Valley Chardonnays reviewed. While Chardonnay was established among the very first vines of...
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These 44 wine reviews should be read in conjunction with Willamette Valley rediscovers Chardonnay. The following tasting notes showcase a...
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Not long ago I published the results of a blind comparative tasting of top white burgundies with the New Zealand...
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From €23.90, £23.40, approx $50 Find this wine ‘Complete bargain’ were the last two words I wrote when I tasted...
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28 May 2015 We are republishing this article from June 2013 as background to today's tasting article detailing a blind...
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See also Top New Zealand v white burgundy.
We have long been fans of Kumeu River’s New Zealand Chardonnays, as...
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'High-class Chardonnay with high-class winemaking' is the conclusion to my tasting...
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Cakebread have been making Chardonnay in the Napa Valley for 42 years, Bruce Cakebread (pictured) told us while introducing a...
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As Michael wrote here yesterday, German wine drinkers and producers have become increasingly fond of grape varieties that are members...
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From NZ$30.05, £15, $29.99 Find this wine It's a confusing time for Chardonnay, as Jancis discussed last month in Struck-match...
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This is a longer version of an article also published by the Financial Times. Find 1,000 tasting notes on 2013...
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From £11.95, 1,823 yen, CA$20.15, €14.60, $21.74 Find this wine You can imagine that there are some challenges choosing our...
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