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Azenhas do Mar, Portugal
Inside information Lisboa by the bottle

The wines of this Portuguese region are emerging from the shadows of their history. Above, Azenhas do Mar in Colares. Come back tomorrow for wine reviews and producer details. Four...

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Women in the vineyards of Silver Heights in Ningxia, China
Inside information Louise Hurren compares attitudes to women winemakers in France and China. In 2018 on my first visit to Ningxia (widely...
Ken Deaver, owner of the oldest known vineyard in California, Amador County
Inside information In the second half of her two-part analysis of this recovered grape variety, Elaine looks at some current examples of...
Mission vine planted in 1854 in Amador County
Inside information A historic grape variety is emerging from obscurity in California, at the same time as in southern Chile. See also...
Axel Marchal in the ISVV lab
Inside information Just a few of the fascinating research projects currently underway at Bordeaux's centre of wine academia. See Joined-up science at...
ISVV Bordeaux exterior
Inside information A day spent at the hub of wine academe in Bordeaux, the world-famous ISVV, was fascinating, and threw up serious...
Bee in a dandelion in Kog vineyard Slovenia
Inside information It takes an Irishman to persuade a Zimbabwean-Brit to fly to the remotest corner of Slovenia to taste wine on...
View from Willamette winery with Mount Hood in the background
Inside information Samantha bids farewell, for a while. Snow-covered Mount Hood in the background of this view from the Oregon winery. I...
Klein Constantia's Vin de Constance bottles at the IMW HQ 2019
Inside information South African wine writer Malu Lambert happened to be in London when her country’s most famous wine was displayed in...
Cirò Revolution logo, Calabria
Inside information After his survey of the history of this southern Italian wine, Walter looks at what is being done to assure...
Ionian Sea seen from the wine district of Ciro
Inside information For the first of three reports, Walter ventures to the far south of Italy. Twice. See also Cirò – the...
Samantha Cole-Johnson filling barrels in the Willamette Valley, 2019
Inside information Samantha explains hoses, presses and barrelling this week. I don’t know how wine was made before hoses. They’re literally everywhere...
Bottles at the 2019 MW champagne tasting in San Francisco
Inside information New York-based Charles Curtis MW, fine wine advisor and writer formerly with Christie's, outlines some harsh truths about champagne sales...
Gigondas vineyard with Dentelles de Montmirail background
Inside information An exploration of the southern Rhône beyond Châteauneuf. See the accompanying tasting notes here. And see this guide for our...
Samantha Cole-Johnson cleaning a tank in Oregon's Willamette Valley 2019
Inside information Samantha reports on some welcome fine weather. Eventually. Ah winemaking! How romantic… I just soaped my hair and watched a...
2019 Chardonnay grapes in Oregon's Willamette Valley
Inside information First-picked 2019 Chardonnay grapes shown here. Fingers crossed for drier weather. Click on the tag to find last week's despatch...
Monte Amiata as seen from San Polino estate in Montalcino
Inside information Another revealing encounter at San Polino outside Montalcino and praise for their 2014. At the beginning of August I visited...
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