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Ferran with many bottles of Rioja tasted at the Consejo Regulador

Inside information Rioja at 100 – a personal look

Ferran finds Rioja as vibrant as it has ever been over its hundred-year existence as Spain’s preeminent wine region. In 2025, Rioja celebrated its centenary, and to mark the anniversary...

Ferran Centelles Friday 6 March 2026 • 1 min read

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Julia Harding MW Wednesday 4 March 2026 • 1 min read

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Walter Speller Wednesday 18 February 2026 • 1 min read

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Concha y Toro update

Those of you who are at all interested in Chilean wines will have noticed I am pretty impressed by this...

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News from Italy

- new, vinous hotels in the Maremma – Ruffino sale – Berlusconi the vigneron Daniel Thomases, the American wine sleuth...

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Even more ancient (and amazing) madeiras

Miami, 1 March – Last night Dr Robert Maliner, who may well have the world's finest collection of old madeira...

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Now the Brits invade Australia

With the markets a-quiver with rumours that Southcorp is to be gobbled up by the British-based multinational Allied Domecq (so...

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New Gambero Rosso Guide

Another forthcoming feature in purple pages' tasting notes (we mustn't get too dependent on France in this anti-French era, after...

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Matching food with madeira

This table was kindly supplied by Danny Cameron, who works with Raymond Reynolds, the UK importer of many madeiras.

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Insider's madeira

For a basic madeira primer, see madeira in the OCW. See also, matching food with madeira, a fascinating grid compiled...

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My favourite New Zealand wine producer sold

Dry River of Martinborough, where Dawn and Neil McCallum have been producing Pinot Noir and Riesling in particular of a...

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Cheap champagne

If you seek the C-word on the label of your fizz above all, plus, preferably, a reasonably well-known name, then...

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And another German 2001 offer...

Adnams of Southwold have just made their offer of these fabulous wines. Only 14 wines are involved, as opposed to...

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Another sale of interest

Check out www.nickollsandperks.co.uk of Stourbridge, England for some pretty good deals on individual bottles of wine, especially fortified wines (see...

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A late offer of top German 2001s

You may, like me, have been so dazzled by what was on offer from Germany's exceptional 2001 vintage that you...

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Extreme weather

Here's a photograph of the Marqués de Murrieta bodega in Rioja last Friday, 31 January. This apparently is the coldest...

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A warehouse sale

London wine merchants Bibendum Wine are moving warehouse which is why they have thousands of odd bottles of sometimes very...

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Another fizzy lure into Tesco

From now until 16 February British supermarket giants Tesco, just one of many suitors for the rival Safeway chain, is...