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Wildfires burn Aude, Corsica and California, super-light wine bottles, new GI for Argentina
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 9 August 2025
• 1 min read
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The latest trends in Chinese wine
Richard Hemming MW
Monday 7 July 2025
• 4 min read
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French protests and storms, microplastics in beverages, human trafficking in Champagne
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 28 June 2025
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Richard crunches the numbers on wine in Asia.
After nearly two years living in Singapore, I am now used to...
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Wines from Ethiopia, Azerbaijan, Finger Lakes, Ukraine, Cyprus and China. A shorter version of this article is published by the...
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26 April 2021 More wines added from the Ukrainian winery Kolonist which perhaps prove the virtue of the earlier selection...
Hemming in Asia
Richard searches for a common descriptor for wine from China.
Wine’s most treasured quality is to reflect its origin: ‘to...
Max on Oz
Peter Gago of Penfolds was pictured above at the 2017 launch of the luxury g3 blend in Hong Kong. Well...
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Master of Wine student Young Shi has returned to her native China and reports on the ups and mainly downs...
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3 December 2020 What a difference a year makes. We're republishing this article in the light of China's recent announcement...
Hemming in Asia
After a month off, Richard’s column returns with a peek into the virtual reality of wine communication in China.
Asking...
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In what might be the most unexpected entry to our writing competition, we received an introduction that began thus: 'My...
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A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. At the end of this article are 23...
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Arnica Rowan examines ways of producing lighter wines when global warming suggests otherwise.
Across the planet, consumer preferences are swinging...
Hemming in Asia
What do the 2020s have in store for wine in Asia? It's anybody's guess.
As the year of the rat...
Alder on America
The US – China trade war has had far-reaching effects on the California wine industry, not least in its choice...
Hemming in Asia
Richard examines how cultural attitudes towards wine in Asia differ from those in Europe.
Without cultural context, wine is meaningless...
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14 November 2019 In our Throwback Thursday series of articles retrieved from the archive, we are republishing this 2012 article...
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Louise Hurren sheds light on the rapid evolution of the Chinese wine market through profiles of five over-achievers in wine-minded...
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