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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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Samantha Cole-Johnson in Willamette barrel room
Inside information Samantha Cole-Johnson, who submitted the recently published Portland for wine lovers in our 2019 wine travel writing competition ( vote...
Arcari + Danesi vineyard in Monte Orfano
Inside information Walter comments, reluctantly, on this year's vintage in Italy. Later that same day The first official estimates for the total...
Ballot box
Inside information 12 September 2019 Remember to vote for your favourite entry in our summer travel writing competition. You have until midnight...
Santorini caldera from Fira
Inside information A look at the most pressing issues on the island today. See also Santorini tasting notes part 1 and part...
Matthieu Kaufmann when at von Buhl in the Pfalz
Inside information Fresh(?) from tasting myriad GGs in Wiesbaden, Michael tells us what everyone in German wine is talking about. Is it...
Tinos harbour
Inside information Vineyards among the boulders on this windswept Cycladic island are starting to get into their stride and seem likely to...
Burnt Carignan vines in the Languedoc 2019
Inside information As I write in the western Languedoc on Sunday 4 August, I am desperate to write this before the temperature...
Elaine Chukan Brown and Randall Grahm at Popelouchum vineyard
Inside information Elaine Chukan Brown visits Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon's cradle of dreams, his new vineyard well off the beaten track...
Ch Mercian pergola-trained Merlot
Inside information The ambitions and challenges of the Japanese region of Nagano in central Honshu. See also Nagano – the tasting notes...
MBA vineyard Hosaka with Kai-Komagate mountain in the background
Inside information Important changes on the Japanese wine scene. During my visits to Yamanashi and Nagano (report next week), I began to...
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Inside information Terrible news and pictures from Priorat, Aragón and Gredos. I am writing this post with great sadness, overwhelmed by the...
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Inside information Connections with the Grateful Dead, Priorat, Macedonia and the southern Rhône drawn on the West Coast by the king of...
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Inside information Rains that (almost) never stopped are reported in Italy. 12 June 2019 Piero Lanza of the Poggerino estate in Gaiole...
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Inside information See also the first half of Walter’s 2018 Italian vintage report on more northerly wine regions. But first, those statistics...
Raffaella Veroli
Inside information Walter introduces the mosaic of factors that determined the varied character of last year’s wines in Italy and details what...
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Inside information The final part of Julia's overview of Bordeaux 2018 looks at pricing as one serious player and several smaller châteaux...
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