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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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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See From the flanks of Mont Ventoux for my...
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Author of this report, Marcelo Retamal, technical director of De Martino, is one of the most respected winemakers in Chile...
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For my other more specific reports on the ICCWS, see Vine breeding – worth all that effort? and Robots in...
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This article has been syndicated. Last March I gave several talks in Tokyo to Japan’s exceptionally numerous and exceptionally polite...
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It’s not so much of a heatwave as it is a suffocating blanket. Until yesterday, 14 July, the Walla Walla...
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The first scientifically based session of last weekend's MW Symposium in Florence was entitled ' A new world of wine...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. Wine is one of the most...
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Highly respected Western Australian Dr John Gladstones AM recently published his latest book, Wine, Terroir and Climate Change , to...
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Brian Croser, founder of Petaluma and senior figure in Australian wine, muses on last week's wine symposium in the nation's...
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Tenuta dell'Ornellaia in the Maremma region on the Tuscan coast, one of the first so-called Supertuscans, in conjuction with the...
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Anne McLennan of Cleggett Wines, secretary of the Langhorne Creek Winemakers' Association, wrote to me out of the blue from...
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There may not have been many Spaniards in attendance – as Jancis recounts in Torres a lone Spaniard on climate...
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Pancho Campo's Second World Meeting on Climate Change & Wine held in Barcelona 15-16 Feb seems to have been a...
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Pancho Campo of the Wine Academy, Spain, is offering purple pagers a 25% saving on the normal fees for the...
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At the World Economic Forum in Davos last week it was difficult to ignore climate change and discussion of its...
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