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Trinchero purchases Mumm Napa, Chablis updates AOC, Canada sells off US booze
Plus Mendoza’s recent embrace of copper mining and the end of the Sud de France moniker on wine labels. Above, a view of Chablis. Before I get to global news...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 19 December 2025
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Water, water, not quite everywhere
4 September 2025 Should irrigation be more widely permitted in France’s fine-wine regions? We’re republishing this argument against, free for all, to inform this debate made especially topical by Château...
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Thursday 4 September 2025
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Bordeaux, Burgundy – it's time to irrigate!
4 September 2025 Château Lafleur quitting the restrictive appellation contrôlée system has put irrigation in the spotlight again. We’re republishing this report from 2022, and its riposte, to inform the...
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Thursday 4 September 2025
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A drought-stricken vintage that taxed the skills of every winegrower.
Vintages need to be seen in a rear-view mirror. You...
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This submission to our WWC22 competition describes the regeneration of a winery in Saussignac, south-west France. See our WWC22 guide...
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Today is the inaugural Old Vine Day. To celebrate, we begin a series focused on vineyards' most venerable residents. Today's...
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See our WWC22 guide for more. We're publishing this entry to our 2022 writing competition with heavy hearts. The climate...
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A good month before the current heatwaves in the northern hemisphere, Atomic Wine Sessions assembled the company above (Elaine in...
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9 June 2022 We're republishing this informative article free in our Throwback Thursday series.
25 May 2022 Tuscan winemaker, Katia...
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Wine producers flock to London and share their woes. A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial...
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Winkler's climate classification with its Regions I to V is being updated to keep up with climate change.
California’s new...
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Veteran of 52 vintages and the varying weather they have exhibited, Brian Croser, of Tapanappa in South Australia, wonders whether...
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Michael, who has also filed the third part of his survey of 2020 Mosels today, reports from the centre of...
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Arnica Rowan reports from the centre of the current fatal heat dome. The record-breaking little town of Lytton, above, has...
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19 April 2020 The French government have pledged €1bn in aid to frost-hit vignerons. The agriculture minister Julien Denormandie called...
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James Mayor discovers how a fifth-generation digital native is shaking up one of the best-known port shippers in its 140th...
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7 January 2021 We're republishing this free as part of our Throwback Thursday series.
21 December 2020 Climate is a...
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30 September 2021 BluAgri, part of the Esseco Group, and SOP Inside have gone their separate ways and are currently...
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30 September 2021 BluAgri, part of the Esseco Group, and SOP Inside have gone their separate ways and are currently...
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