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Mercosur–EU trade talks, wildfire updates, Austria and Cava hit organic goals
Plus, harvest begins in northern Italy, Galicia, Beaujolais, New York and south-west France, where a massive hailstorm complicated efforts. Above, the first Pinot Noir grapes to come in at 21...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 6 September 2025
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Wine news in 5
Champagne news, hail hits the Loire, Barossa uproar, RIP Angela Muir MW
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 26 July 2025
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Wine news in 5
Hail and fires in France, Australian organics upset, a Burgundy–UK venture
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 12 July 2025
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Some Bastille Day thoughts from Nick. Schadenfreude, joy provoked by the misery of others, is not a sentiment many of...
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Here in the western Languedoc, much of the talk is about hail, the hail that on Sunday night wiped out...
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11 Jul - See also Haisma on hail, and Burgundy vintages. 29 Jun – Yohan Castaing sends this very worrying...
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Gareth Skidmore lives in Burgundy, where he works as a translator and teaches wine-business English to Burgundians. One month to...
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Gavin Quinney of Ch Bauduc writes:
Thousands of hectares of vines between the Garonne and Dordogne rivers in the Entre-Deux-Mers...
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Gavin Quinney of Ch Bauduc writes:
To locate this scene of devastation, see this map on Bauduc.com and see also...
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Gareth Skidmore lives in Burgundy, where he works as a translator and teaches wine-business English to Burgundians. With all the...
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Gavin Quinney' writes: We had a storm in Bordeaux late last Friday and in the early hours of Saturday. Summer...
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Yohan Castaing writes: London is not the only place where temperatures soared in recent days; France has also been subject...
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Last Wednesday, 20 June, hail storms in the Middle Mosel caused severe damage in some of the region’s vineyards. Worst...
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A brief visit to the Douro last month yielded some interesting tastings of both ports and table wines, on which...
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In view of the photographs we published recently in What hail does to vines, we thought you might be interested...
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