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Friuli floods, Ste Michelle sold, UK duty hike, French Bloom buys vineyard, LVMH strikes
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 13 December 2025
• 1 min read
Wine news in 5
Wildfires burn Aude, Corsica and California, super-light wine bottles, new GI for Argentina
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 9 August 2025
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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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Austrian Lenz Moser set out to prove a point. See also this detailed account of his taste-off. A version of...
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LMM Projects is busy, busy, busy – not least with pitting its wine made at this 'chateau' in China against...
Nick on restaurants
An ambitious new Chinese restaurant on Trafalgar Square.
‘What’s important about restaurants in the West End’, my friend proclaimed shortly...
Nick on restaurants
How four restaurateurs defied their parents.
China is rarely out of the news. The source of COVID-19; the country on...
Tasting articles
On 22 January, a quarter of the world’s population will celebrate the Lunar New Year, right across the globe.
The...
Nick on restaurants
Here in the UK we seem to be enjoying spicier and spicier food. Nick investigates.
The evidence for this trend...
Nick on restaurants
A trip to Japan, China and Thailand without leaving London.
With travel to China currently impossible and likely to remain...
Nick on restaurants
A local need addressed. Partially. Photo above (by John T on Unsplash) of what washes down all that solid matter...
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So who's responsible for spiralling fine-wine prices? A version of this article is published by the Financial Times.
‘I’ve never...
Max on Oz
Not for the first time, Australia has an embarrassing wine surplus and would love to fill the gap left by...
Nick on restaurants
Nick catches up with London's most celebrated Chinese chef/restaurateur.
I first encountered the talented Andrew Wong in his restaurant A...
Nick on restaurants
Drink tap water at this ambitious new Chinese restaurant in Mayfair.
Below is a restaurant bill, from the recently opened...
Hemming in Asia
Richard surveys the latest news from the wine market in China.
My last review of the wine scene in China...
Nick on restaurants
Nick reprises a Friday tradition.
A ritual used to take place every Friday lunchtime around 2.30 pm during the 1980s...
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Here is someone who has already achieved glory as a taster in France and an educator in China. He currently...
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