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Friuli floods, Ste Michelle sold, UK duty hike, French Bloom buys vineyard, LVMH strikes
Plus potential fraud in Vinho Verde, China’s recognition of Burgundy appellations, and the campaign for protected land in Australia’s Barossa. Above, Bibendum’s sobering calculation on the effect of UK excise...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 13 December 2025
• 5 min read
Nick on restaurants
Poon's – now of Somerset House
A daughter revives memories of her parents’ much-loved Chinese restaurants. The surname Poon has long associations with the world of hospitality and Chinese cooking. From a restaurant in Macau where...
Nick Lander
Sunday 7 December 2025
• 5 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
• 1 min read
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One extraordinary aspect of China's love affair with wine is how popular Wine & Spirit Education Trust courses are there...
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Firstly, thank you, thank you, all those who have so kindly sent recommendations of wine-storage facilities and wine courses. We...
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Beijing-based wine educator Fongyee Walker brought this small collection of five Chinese wines to London last month for a thought-provoking...
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Written by Nick Bartman.
At any one time, legitimately manufactured original goods sit in warehouses or float around the world...
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Written by Nick Bartman. See our guide to Fighting fakes in China. It was now time for us to leave...
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Written by Nick Bartman. See our guide to Fighting fakes in China. Under client instructions we returned to Changli, Yantai...
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Nick Bartman, counterfeit-specialist lawyer, as a follow-up to his shocking discoveries in 2010, writes a riveting five-part account of his...
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Written by Nick Bartman. See our guide to Fighting fakes in China. At the time all my discoveries to date...
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Written by Nick Bartman. See our guide to Fighting fakes in China. In 2010 wine was providing new and exciting...
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You may remember Nick Bartman, the counterfeit-specialist lawyer who was responsible for all those jaw-dropping pictures in our series on...
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This article was also published in the Financial Times . This noodle bar looks just like one of the many...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. The following is an enhanced extract...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times . See my tasting notes on...
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23 Jul - Better news for Castel, and others, is that its subsidiary Barrières Frères, jointly owned with Suntory of...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.I don't know about other wine lovers...
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As background for my article tomorrow charting wine's infiltration of Chinese culture, I thought you might be interested in these...
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