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Napa's new AVA, a massive wine-fraud bust, UK harvest woes, hidden sugar in 'dry' wine
Plus musings on Hong Kong’s liquor-duty slashing as incentive to revive its nightlife. Above, Bremer Family Winery, one of the wineries within California's new Crystal Springs of Napa Valley AVA...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 19 October 2024
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Wine fraud – a self-defence class
Tamlyn Currin
Monday 25 September 2023
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Broadbent – more memories
Some more memories of the expert on wine tasting. See also memories from others at the bottom of this article, as well as this 15-minute film we made for the...
Jancis Robinson
Tuesday 24 March 2020
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I am told that there is another major incident in the American fine wine market involving a very considerable consignment...
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Billionaire William Koch, who is already engaged in a lengthy pursuit of Hardy Rodenstock over the allegedly fake Thomas Jefferson...
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I am completely re-evaluating my collection of wine memorabilia in the light of the news that empty bottles that once...
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This book may be subtitled 'The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine' but I am deeply indebted...
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Anyone remotely interested in fine wine should read this excellent article on Wine Spectator's website. Energetically run by the relatively...
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See also this thread in members' forum. We are all against wine fraud – right? In the UK my colleague...
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As you may imagine, I have amassed far more material on the subject of wine fraud than worked its way...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times .
See also Howard G Goldberg's...
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'Mr Big' has of course turned out to be Rudy Kurniawan, now being pursued by Bill Koch, as outlined in...
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