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Bordeaux 2025 – a pivotal en primeur campaign?
Nick Martin reflects as another en primeur campaign winds up. Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste (pictured above) bundled a visit to the property with the en primeur purchase of their ‘variation case’ this...
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Tam's been food and wine matching again... Something intrigued me while I was at the Wines of Hungary Furmint tasting...
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Richard tests a long-awaited, crowdfunded, new bit of wine kit.
There are dozens of wine-preservation gadgets on the market, most...
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Julia tastes the results of the AWRI's outstanding research into flavour compounds but can't ignore this niggling question. The Australian...
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Walter suggests a way forward for Italy's most famous traditional-method fizz.
Like anyone with a keen interest in wine, I...
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The Sommelier’s Atlas of Taste A field guide to the great wines of EuropeRajat Parr and Jordan MackayPublished by Ten...
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Report on our recent workshops on wine faults.
You wouldn't find music lovers or musicians, art collectors or artists, bibliophiles...
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The last in Andy Howard MW's stocktake of the UK supermarkets' wine ranges. Click on the Supermarkets tag to find...
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Our retail specialist Andy Howard MW continues his Friday series on the UK supermarkets.
The rapid growth of Lidl shows...
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Our retail specialist Andy Howard MW tackles the behemoth of UK retailing whose wine range is dominated by other big...
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Andy Howard MW continues his tour of the UK's supermarket wine aisles with a look at Waitrose, whose regular 25%...
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Nick wrote this cri de coeur about wine packaging last night, when still furious with two French wine producers. Last...
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Andrew Licudi, who commutes between Gibraltar and Edinburgh and wrote this recent competition entry, laments the passing of classical rioja...
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Our retail specialist Andy Howard MW has a soft spot for a once-great name. Oddbins' wines are likely to be...
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Andy Howard MW continues his series reviewing the wines available at UK supermarkets. See also Sainsbury's unmerged and Aldi forges...
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The second part of Walter’s two-part exposition of what Tuscany’s core wine region has to offer today. You can taste...
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The first part of Walter’s two-part survey of recent changes in Tuscany’s emblematic wine region. See Chianti Classico's return to...
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