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Matching wine with Asian food, part 5 – sweet/savoury and umami
Part five of an eight-part series on how to pair wine with Asian flavours, adapted from Richard’s book. Click here for all the articles in this series so far published...
Richard Hemming MW
Thursday 22 January 2026
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The map is not the terroir – Normandy as a wine region
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Thursday 15 January 2026
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Andy Howard MW continues his review of the autumn tastings of the UK's major retailers. See his other articles on...
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Twenty-four winemakers from the Douro Valley will be in London next month and, as last year, the organisers are offering...
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In beautiful autumn sunshine, as here on the road into Morey-St-Denis, while we awaited the results of the World Wine...
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See also Hidden Etna Part 1 – the east and the associated tasting notes . For all our recent coverage...
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This is the first of two riveting articles based on Walter's original researches on the less familiar flanks of Sicily's...
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It was a treat recently to whizz round nine of the most renowned champagne houses in 48 hours in blazing...
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See our burgeoning guide to this year's coverage of Sicilian wine. In an experimental vineyard in Marsala, 70 ancient Sicilian...
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Chilean agronomist Max Morales reports on this new and interesting – possibly complicated and challenging – development. After many years...
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Having a vision for a wine and spending more time with the vines are the lessons learned by neophyte vigneron...
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If like me you are a bit geeky in your love of wine, you might like to know a bit...
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Tomorrow I will publish tasting notes and information on 25 significant Uruguayan producers. Some things don’t change: Uruguayans are just...
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Sonoma’s proposed Petaluma Gap AVA – known for its Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Syrah – is all but approved but...
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Brave faces were on display in the Loire last week, when I visited with a group of Russian sommeliers for...
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There's a delicious irony in the Douro's magic. Just when you and the vines are seeking relief from the heat...
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The following concise summary of the Beaujolais terroir project and the region's soils was produced by cartographer Sigales in alliance...
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Chilean agronomist Maximiliano Morales brings us up to date. This picture shows some of the old labels of Maule wines...
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