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Wine news in 5 New French grape variety, Argentina's falling exports, UK's rising wine taxes

Samantha Cole-Johnson Saturday 7 February 2026 • 1 min read

Wine news in 5 Wildfires in Chile, New Zealand floods, South Africa starts harvest, Prosecco sales strong

Also: the WHO calls for raised alcohol taxes; more tariff drama; Champagne sales decline, and protests continue at Moët Hennessy. Above, fires still rage in South Africa. Photo by David...

Samantha Cole-Johnson Friday 23 January 2026 • 1 min read

Wine news in 5 Fires in South Africa, Australia and Argentina, FB bans, state of the US wine industry report

Plus an update on France’s ban on copper-containing fungicides for organic viticulture. Above, fire in South Africa’s Overberg, sent by Malu Lambert. As far as site news this week, our...

Samantha Cole-Johnson Friday 16 January 2026 • 1 min read

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Fire and rain

2 November 2023 Today we’re republishing this report on the devastating floods in Chile to draw your attention to a...

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Beyond Bordeaux – 2023 releases

A hard-nosed assessment of the Bordeaux trade's current attempt to widen its portfolio outside the Gironde. Above, Zuccardi's Finca Canal...

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La Roncière, Idahue Estate Malbec 2021 Licantén

A bargain, cool-climate Chilean red of true distinction. From €17.55, £15.50, $28, 615.04 Czech koruna. Find this wine Here in...

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Chile's best in 2023?

Highs and lows from South America's second most important wine producer. And a complaint. Image of Maipo in winter courtesy...

Les Erazo (right) speaking with a fourth-generation País farmer, harvest 2022

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WWC23 – Leo Erazo, by Jimmy Boldt

In this moving 2023 wine writing competition entry, aspiring winemaker Jimmy Boldt writes about Chilean vintner Leo Erazo and his...

Rodrigo Soto, Alan York, and terroir and soil specialist, Pedro Parra visit renowned soil microbiologist Claude Bourguignon, Anne-Claude Leflaive (who helped to spread biodynamic viticulture across Burgundy), and Antoine Lepetit (specialist in biodynamic viticulture) in 2011. Left to right: Parra, Soto, Bourguignon, York, Leflaive. Credit to Rodrigo Soto

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Biodynamic viticulture in the Americas

22 June 2023 Continuing today’s biodynamic theme, we’re republishing this illuminating history free in our Throwback Thursday series. Sam has...

The author, Alistair Cooper MW, sits in a traditional wooden hut with the Mapuche family involved in the making of Tayu wines.

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Malleco – Chile's southern frontier

Ali Cooper MW ventures even further south than the terrible fires which have destroyed so many of Chile's oldest vines...

Wildfire smoke obscures the vineyards in Itata, Chile

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Itata on fire

I visited the southern winegrowing regions of Chile in October 2022 and tasted many wines from Itata. This is not...

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Guide to our old-vines coverage

28 June 2023 The Old Vine Registry has just been launched! See this article for background. 9 February 2023 Exciting...

Perspective shot of Promontory vine master Jesus Villa

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Beyond Bordeaux 2022 – too many?

It's that time again, when the Bordeaux wine trade tries to sell as much non-bordeaux as possible. But is the...

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Old-vine wines – part 3 Chile and Argentina

The third instalment of our old-vine wines series takes us to South America. There are two very special stories here...

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Chile's 2020 and 2021 vintages

Unpredictable weather made quality heavily reliant on producers' adaptability. Alcohuaz, in the Elqui Valley (pictured above), excelled. See also Chile...