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South African new-wave wines revisited
The first 'Steenwold' blind tasting took place last May in London. Above, the 2015 new-wave tasting booklets were pictured by Richard Bray, who also captured Jancis tasting with Donovan Rall...
Jancis Robinson
Friday 4 July 2025
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Seeking (wine bottle) closure
Fifteen Verget white burgundies like these and 10 more wines were served blind in pairs ... Why? A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See also...
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 28 December 2024
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Jancis recently reported here on a fascinating semi-blind comparison between cork- and screwcap-stoppered Vidal Estate Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon. I was...
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The other night I undertook a small experiment. New Zealand wine producers Vidal, part of the Villa Maria group, had...
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The last of this week's reports on the 2010 vintage comes from Michael Schmelzer of Monte Bernardi, another usefully talented...
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10 Feb - And now Paul White sends a long riposte to Bob Campbell's yesterday. I am adding them both...
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One of the most interesting encounters I had while in Porto last week (see my videos this week) was with...
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The natural cork movement is currently on a charm offensive with its ilovenaturalcork.co.uk campaign. Jilly Goolden was recently espousing cork’s...
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In the light of yesterday's article in The Observer (or Sunday Guardian , as we must get used to calling...
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Oxygen and its impact on wine is a hot topic at the moment, fuelling fervent activity around the world to...
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One of the major concerns among fine wine lovers today has become the problem known as 'premature oxidation' in white...
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The battles in the closure universe over TCA-derived cork taint and oxygen transmission rates are still being waged, with a...
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Filipe da Mota Neves worked for the Portuguese trade office in London promoting Portuguese wines and ports very successfully (as...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. In the 1990s I went to...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. In the 1990s I went to...
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The world's leading cork producer Amorim of Portugal has sent out a summary of the company’s first annual Sustainability Report...
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After a period in the doldrums the UK weekly wine trade publication Harpers ( www.harpers.co.uk) has become really quite meaty...
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Why is it that New Zealand is such a common battleground for the holy war being waged between advocates and...
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