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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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My second-eldest sister and my aunt loathe the leafy herb called coriander (or cilantro). The sister says it tastes like...
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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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Wine with spice is the proverbial Gordian knot when it comes to food and wine matching. The most adversarial aspect...
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When the level of farm mud on and in our car gets to a point at which it might rival...
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Comfort will ruin your life. So says Bill Eckstrom in his TED talk on comfort, change and growth. We stop...
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Bruno Giacosa, one of Italy’s most admired winemakers, died a week last Sunday at the age of 88. Famous for...
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Turkish-born Isa Bal MS was for long the sommelier at The Fat Duck but has recently given that up in...
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How many wine guides does a country need? Well, if that country is Germany, apparently quite a lot. Or so...
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A little success is swiftly followed by another disaster. Such is the life of neophyte Slovenian vigneron Chris Boiling. I...
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Tim Hall, British champagne specialist and importer of what he describes determinedly as 'single-estate' champagnes, reports on a ground-breaking day...
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Moshe Cohen is based in Manchester, England. He had a small wine business from 1999 until 2007 when he decided...
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See Sicily 2017 – the guide for all the fascinating articles in this series. There is a group of tiny...
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Andy Howard MW kicks off his autumn series reviewing the current wine offerings from UK supermarkets with a report on...
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Tom Munro, finalist in our wine writing competition , offers this snapshot of a selection of independent Bordeaux vignerons who...
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Tom Munro, pictured here at Ch Tire Pé, which he describes as ' trailblazer in the shift towards Bordeaux's nineteenth-century...
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