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Wine needs a new social contract
It’s time for a reset from vineyards to restaurants, says Robert Camuto. A long-time wine writer, Robert recently launched Italy Matters, a Substack newsletter, and he’s kindly allowed us to...
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Wednesday 11 February 2026
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A DNA discovery connecting Türkiye and Hungary over three centuries
This morning at Wine Paris, Dr José Vouillamoz and Seyit Karagözoğlu of Paşaeli Winery made the surprising announcement that Kolorko, a rare Turkish grape, is genetically the same as Hungary’s...
José Vouillamoz
Monday 9 February 2026
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I wonder how cheap own-label sherry would have become if the sherry producers hadn't naughtily ganged up and decided to...
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Cher Lim writes: In the good old days, the word 'bubble' was associated with champagne, celebration, happiness, playfulness – never...
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This is to alert you to the fact that Tamlyn Currin has recently completely updated our long article Professional wine...
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I have long thought that there are several fortunes to be made by enterprising industrial designers prepared to help us...
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Wine lovers in search of others, and entertaining environments in which to meet them, may be interested in the following...
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Michael Schmidt, a resident of the Ahr region and responsible for this picture of Ahr vineyards in autumn, reports on...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.
See my tasting notes on 56...
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To judge from the number of views (nearly 18,000) and the number of posts (more than 200) on our Are...
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There are signs of dynamic life in South Africa's backwoods Swartland region, source of an increasing number of truly distinctive...
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Anyone halfway familiar with the maps of the World Atlas of Wine will immediately agree that while France's regions look...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. What is the future of the...
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Thanks to Julia's recent explanatory article on Contacting members via our forum, I finally caught up with a shamefully long...
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Just before the WineFuture Rioja conference last November, rumours surfaced that its chief protagonist and energetic conference organiser Pancho Campo...
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You may have noticed that I am not the biggest admirer of what Australian brewers Foster's have managed to achieve...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See our tasting notes on 130...
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UK market researchers Wine Intelligence recently issued this report from Nicola Spitzer on the influence of social media in the...
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