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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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Water, water, not quite everywhere
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Agronomist Maurizio Gily, pictured above by Andreas Maerz, is a specialist in viticulture and oenology as well as editor and...
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Matthew Hayes follows up his report on the effects of climate change on the Côte d'Or with interviews at Domaines...
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Richard McIntyre MB BS (Monash), D Phil (Oxon), FRACS, owner and winemaker of Moorooduc Estate in the Mornington Peninsula, contributes...
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Two winners and a runner-up announced below, on what we thought was the most appropriate date.
What a thoughtful and...
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12 December 2019 This article is so important that we are republishing it free so that as many people as...
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Some thoughts on the meaning of cool prompted by an unexpectedly warm celebration of Chardonnay in Niagara-on-the-Lake. See also Cool-climate...
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Alistair Cooper MW reports on a conference in Canada.
An unseasonably cold and snowy Montreal played host to Tasting Climate...
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Veteran South Australian wine producer Brian Croser shares a blast from the south.
I am sitting in my office looking...
Alder on America
This spring has been just as challenging for vine growers in California as in Italy, it seems. Grapevines are notoriously...
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Brian Croser of Tapanappa reports on a small, dry and moderate vintage in South Australia. Croser believes that his interpretation...
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Tom Lloyd-Jones of English Wine Adventures gets quite heated about the possibilities for English wine if global warming continues. See...
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A version of this survey of the effect of climate change on Austria is published by the Financial Times. See...
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Norway’s first grape harvest suggests the world really is warming up. If President Trump continues to deny climate change, perhaps...
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The late Sir Fredy Fisher, the editor of the FT from 1973 to 1980, would, I believe, have been spinning...
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Long used to depending on the weather, grape growers in California are largely scratching their heads these days, as long-standing...
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‘I have been travelling the world for nearly 25 years, and I do not remember a year in which the...
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