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Azenhas do Mar, Portugal
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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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Inside information Last week when I was in Burgundy I heard a great deal of talk about foreign investors in Côte d’Or...
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Inside information Maximiliano Morales writes from Chile about dramatic increases in grape prices in parts of the long, narrow country. Chile’s old-vine...
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Inside information The organisers of the New Douro tasting in London's Soho on Monday 7 November are offering Purple Pagers a 50%...
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Inside information Michael Alberty, ex Oregon wine retailer, reports on today's extraordinary goings on in America's Pinot Noir state. He has written...
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Inside information Austria's Traditionsweingüter don't stand still for long, as I found out at their recent substantial tasting of the 2015 vintage...
Alberello Nerello vines in Graci vineyard
Inside information See my tasting notes f rom this year's Contrade dell'Etna. Last April the ninth edition of the hugely popular Contrade...
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Inside information See also parts one and two about viticulture, and part three about winemaking. The final part of this series of...
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Inside information Having statistically examined viticulture in part one and part two of this series of articles, let's now enter the winery...
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Inside information See also part one of this mini-series which explores the measuremements behind wine. In this part, we examine the physical...
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Inside information See also Zorah wines: Armenia in Armenia. Grape-pip rivalry – as in who has the oldest – is somehow reassuring...
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Inside information When I was working as a sommelier in an Italian restaurant in Berlin in the early 1990s, a colleague of...
Peter Vinding-Diers and his wife Susie
Inside information A couple of years ago I got an unexpected email from Jim Furze, who at the time was MD of...
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Inside information See also my review and tasting notes comparing Beaujolais 2015 and 2014 . Last week's reports from Beaujolais were the...
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Inside information Simon Reilly of www.wineloon.com tells us what he did on his holidays. On a recent family holiday in Germany, I...
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Inside information Marcelo Papa, winemaker for Chilean behemoth Concha y Toro, has a willingness to reveal all the detail and thinking behind...
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Inside information The level of detail in the technical presentations at last month’s International Cool Climate Wine Symposium in Brighton, alluded to...
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