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Water, water, not quite everywhere
4 September 2025 Should irrigation be more widely permitted in France’s fine-wine regions? We’re republishing this argument against, free for all, to inform this debate made especially topical by Château...
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Thursday 4 September 2025
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Santorini 2025 – outstanding quality, a crisis of quantity
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Thursday 28 August 2025
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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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Severe drought and extreme heat pose a significant threat to wine production – especially in Baja California, Mexico (although see...
Max on Oz
Floods and drought collide in eastern Australia.
The last time the cellars flooded at Mitchelton was 1974, just after the...
Tasting articles
Fewer Riservas than usual were made in 2017, but were they better? Read on…
From a cool and very rainy...
Inside information
A drought-stricken vintage that taxed the skills of every winegrower.
Vintages need to be seen in a rear-view mirror. You...
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It's time to allow irrigation – if only there were any water. The continuing drought in large parts of northern...
Alder on America
Alder explains exactly how and why Californian wine producers are so dependent on a commodity that is running out fast...
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In this first part of her overview, Julia looks at what happened in the vineyard, how the extreme conditions of...
Alder on America
Alder reports from a West Coast that is, at last, rather damp. It’s spring in California wine country. ‘As the...
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The late Sir Fredy Fisher, the editor of the FT from 1973 to 1980, would, I believe, have been spinning...
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Jancis writes Gavin Quinney of Ch Bauduc has been a regular reporter on the state of vineyards in Bordeaux and...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times.
When John Williams of Frog’s Leap (pictured here) organised...
Alder on America
Long used to depending on the weather, grape growers in California are largely scratching their heads these days, as long-standing...
Alder on America
On Martin Luther King Day, Alder reports on the extraordinary 2017 vintage across America. In 2017, the United States suffered...
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