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Wine news in 5
Germany's tiny 2025 vintage, Oregon wildfire payout, Ram's Gate Winery goes ROC
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 25 October 2025
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Wine news in 5
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 news in 5
US dietary guidelines for alcohol update, new red Alsace Grand Cru, Champagne challenges
Plus a brazen wine fraud case, the bankruptcy of a major California company and potential sale of Gusbourne in England, the wrap-up of Ontario’s LCBO strike and more damaging weather...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 27 July 2024
• 1 min read
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After yesterday's piece on the reality of wine fraud, Tam reviews two books that romp through this unseemly side of...
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Counterfeit wine is a reality; here's how to protect yourself from being duped. Pictured above is one of seven bottles...
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20 February 2020 Following Richard’s review yesterday of Laurent Ponsot’s latest releases, we are republishing this article from the archives...
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Truth can be stranger than fiction. We have a bit of both in these two final book reviews. For all...
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22 September We are republishing free Tam's review of this new documentary film currently shown in UK cinemas (see below)...
Alder on America
In the early 2000s, when my aspirations to own wine began to move beyond the small rack of a dozen...
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A slightly shorter version of this article was also published in the Financial Times. When she wanted hands-on winemaking experience...
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The following is a statement by Stephen Wlliams of The Antique Wine Company in response to the lawsuit described in...
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Later that same day: Stephen Williams responds here. Lawyers acting for Atlanta real-estate developer Julian LeCraw Jr filed a 59-page...
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Not since the Mondavi brothers faced each other in a San Francisco courtroom has there been so much drama in...
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See Julia's notes on Pomerol 2012s on Monday.
At the en primeur tasting earlier this month in their very fine...
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15 May – Read a racy 4,000-word account of the story of Rudy to date by Benjamin Wallace, author of...
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More jaw-dropping images from China via Nick Bartman, who is trying to galvanise the wine trade into action against fraud...
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Even before we published the recent MW dissertation on counterfeit wine and before Mike Steinberger's long expose of yet more...
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Should you by any chance manage to pass the challenging final Master of Wine exams – and Richard's recent account...
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Lawyer Nick Bartman, who supplied all the photographs in our recent revealing series on the sort of questionable business practices...
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