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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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Water, water, not quite everywhere
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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.
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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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