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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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This is the first of this season's trenchant commentaries on the wine selections of the major UK retailers by our...
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Rome resident Andrea Franchetti of Tenuta di Trinoro in southern Tuscany and Passopisciaro on Etna is one of the more...
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Paul Symington has long railed against what he sees as the underpricing of port. Why shouldn’t the wine to which...
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What’s it like running a small vineyard in a country where you don’t speak the language? Neophyte vigneron Chris Boiling...
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The rarity of experiencing utter blackness becomes apparent only once you are immersed in it. Mundanely speaking, it is the...
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As the referendum regarding Britain’s membership of the EU approaches, there is a relentless frenzy of news coverage weighing up...
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Before sharing his hundreds of tasting notes on the latest wines from this great-value region, Walter reports on significant developments...
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Chris Boiling, who bought a small vineyard in Slovenia six years ago, finally unveils his wine in the UK –...
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We live in an impatient world. (Get to the point already, I hear you cry.) Acceleration is a major measure...
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When Chris Boiling bought his winehouse and small vineyard in Slovenia, he imagined winters would be spent getting to grips...
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Shanghai-based Master of Wine student Young Shi (in a grey suit with orange scarf below) of prominent Chinese wine website...
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Henry Jeffreys, winner of our 2012 restaurant review competition, sends us this story of Christmas drinking, originally published in The...
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Neophyte vigneron Chris Boiling (left in this picture) discovers his grapes are not as noble as he first thought. But...
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See also Great Silvaner – no oxymoron and related articles about the grape's 350th anniversary. According to the Brothers Grimm...
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Last Tuesday I confessed that I was celebrating my fortieth anniversary of writing about wine that day; see Forty years...
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Australian wine competitions are a notorious proving ground for the wine industry. For producers, they offer the opportunity of winning...
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