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Some wine really does get better with age, and not all of it is expensive. A slightly shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. One of...
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Sweet and strong wines for the 2025 festive season
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Lay & Wheeler of Colchester (order hotline 0845 330 1855) have lots of fine wines in their summer sale which...
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Lafon vaults onto Dromara; chunky horses at Clos Vougeot; awesome cassis and the Patron Saint of Travellers on Horseback... From...
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If it seems strange to you that I flew 6000 miles to attend a wine-tasting, then you clearly have no...
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The French put on a tasting yesterday at which importers of French wine into Britain showed two of their best...
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A wild picnic, Dromara takes Jilly cherry scrumping, awesome chocolate and fabulous Condrieu... It was all change at Montpellier airport...
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One of the entries I enjoyed editing most in The Oxford Companion to Wine (2nd edn, OUP 1999) was that...
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I have long been fascinated by Shiraz from Italy, Pinot Grigio from Australia and all other adoptions of non-traditional varietal...
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Someone was asking about eastern European oaks recently in Your turn on purple pages. Coincidentally I have just received this...
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A short but concentrated trip to the Napa Valley this week suggested a few new trends in this extremely trend-conscious...
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Recent correspondence about Guigal (see Your turn in purple pages) reminded me that Yves Gangloff, who makes a particularly graceful...
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Dramas with Dromara, cherry scrumping and Lily digs her toes in... For the first time in the tour Lily dug...
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This article first appeared in the Financial Times in May 2000 Not every wine producer will agree with this statement...
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The famous Tenuta San Guido at Bolgheri on the Tuscan coast which produces Sassicaia has launched an earlier-maturing, less expensive...
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From Bonnezeaux to Bordeaux we trundled south. With horses on board you cannot go fast but we completed the auto...
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If you are a wine broker, what do you do now that the Asian market for fine bordeaux has gone...
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Since winemakers tended to show me their most recent wines, the ones they are most proud of, I have waited...
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