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Guide to our old-vines coverage
4 June 2026 In advance of the 2026 Old Vine Conference on 8 June, we’re republishing this overview of our old-vines coverage, newly updated. 28 June 2023 The Old Vine...
Julian Leidy
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With a dramatic swallow of national pride, France’s wine regulators have just authorised the use of oak chips and irrigation...
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Amid France's current spate of introspective navel-gazing about the dire state of the market for French wine both at home...
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This is the text of a talk given in London this month by Jean-Claude Mas of Les Domaines Paul Mas...
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It has become quite fashionable for outsiders to invest in French vineyards as I reported earlier in the year with...
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Very many thanks to Malcolm Compain of London for reminding me via your turn to remind you that this is...
Nick on restaurants
My parents arrived at Ferdinand Point's Pyramide, a world famous staging post on the great drive south, at 11pm one...
Nick on restaurants
Nicholas Lander, an unashamed Francophile, writes an open letter to President Chirac of France over his concerns about the present...
Nick on restaurants
Here are three invaluable rules on how to eat outside when the mistral, the wind which whistles down the Rhône...
Nick on restaurants
The sight of dozens of French families sitting round restaurant tables is not in itself surprising. But in this instance...
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