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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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Oceanic wine
Chris Howard asks, if there’s such a thing as volcanic wine, can there be oceanic wine? Above, seals on the beach where the Pacific meets the Russian River – not...
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The second in Andy Howard MW's series reviewing the wines available at UK supermarkets as well as the companies' overall...
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Caro Feely, who wrote this article on organic viticulture , her specialist subject, reviews a book on pesticide residues in...
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In the first of his seasonal series on the wine offerings of UK supermarkets, Andy Howard MW reviews the current...
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See also A foretaste of this year's German auction wines. The VDP auctions on 21 and 23 September in Trier...
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There is a Facebook group called Country Woodsmoke. Its surprisingly diverse members are people as much into outdoor cooking as...
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See this guide for links to all the articles in our 2018 coverage of rosé wines. Lesson learned: don’t underestimate...
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This is the third and last summer despatch from our retail specialist Andy Howard MW. See also his reports on...
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Jonathan Reeve of Wine Owners, who assembled the proto-prices table in What price Bordeaux 2017?, sums up this year’s Bordeaux...
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This is the second of Andy Howard MW's reviews of the current offerings from some of the more important UK...
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Our UK retail specialist Andy Howard MW begins a review of current offerings from some of the more significant heavyweights...
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This is English Wine Week and we are marking it with a series of articles about English wine, many of...
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Inspired by this Long Read on natural wine in last Tuesday's Guardian , Saussignac winemaker Caro Feely of Château Feely*...
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For the back story of how Tam fell upon this restaurant, see When Tam met Harry and Meghan. Together with...
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Simon Field MW bought wine for Berry Bros & Rudd for 20 years. He looks back fondly. See Richard's assessment...
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I’ve got to get this off my chest. Londoners may have heard of the hot new restaurant opening, Hide in...
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Neophyte Slovenian vigneron Chris Boiling continues revealing the stuff that no other winemaker or vineyard owner talks about… I’ve never...
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