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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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Following up on Tam's March visit to France's Roussillon, when the wild rocket and cherry trees were in full bloom...
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Nick Martin of Wine Hub puts this year's en primeur campaign in perspective. See also this guide to the Bordeaux...
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For English Wine Week, Tam shares her new discoveries from an ever-evolving wine region.
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'Young guns' has become an...
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With water in short supply, Roussillon's vintners are planning ahead. Above, one of Treloar's old-vine vineyards showing verdant ground cover...
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Pumpkin-seed oil as complex, terroir-reflective and delicious as great wine. The smell was rich in the air. Sweet, roasted, green...
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Overarching conclusions – and some bargains from this year's extensive, three-day blind tasting of all the bordeaux 2019s that matter...
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8 December 2022 You may have heard Tamlyn Currin chatting with Jancis on our first-ever podcast this week. Here, in...
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No one should write off this smoke-shrunk vintage. There are apparently some beauties to be winkled out – from the...
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The new team at Piper found a couple of interesting 1982s lurking in the cellar …
As pickers snipped a...
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Could a small corner of Essex, better known for Maldon salt and marshes, become England's Côte d'Or? Above, a view...
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6 October We’re republishing this free today, to coincide with Tam’s tasting article that includes ‘one of the most delicious...
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22 September 2022 With the sad news of the recent death of this towering force in introducing fine Italian wine...
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A working knowledge of cricket would be an asset for readers of this lament by our man in Burgundy. Above...
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James Mayor reports from northern Portugal on a brave attempt to solve the problems of the Douro, against which too...
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Two travel series, superficially similar, reviewed.
One of the unexpected upsides of the 2020 lockdown was watching Stanley Tucci making...
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The other side of the argument re VMCs. Above, the Results team at a go-kart team-building exercise (see below).
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