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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
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Santorini – investing in the future
Julia Harding MW
Wednesday 4 March 2026
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Erbamat – Franciacorta's future?
Walter Speller
Wednesday 18 February 2026
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See also yesterday's compilation of reviews of Italian whites. Its red counterpart follows. As I write this, Italy’s 2015 wine...
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We are publishing Andy Howard MW’s latest assessment of what this important UK retailer has to offer because it is...
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Andy Howard MW continues his reviews of the major UK retailers, starting with Waitrose, who are currently offering 25% off...
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Come back tomorrow for news of perhaps an even greater achievement for English ferments....JR
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As I travelled across California this summer and autumn a few things proved consistent. Most vineyards – whether hillside or...
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22 October 2014 Today, in response to the recent thread on our Members' forum about yeasty and mousy flavours in...
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National stereotypes exist for good reason. They apply as much to wine as to sporting prowess, cuisine, personality traits, weather...
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For the fruits of one approach to vineyard classification, see my tasting notes on 117 Austrian Rieslings and Grüner Veltliners...
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I first tasted Passito di Pantelleria some years back and ever since I’ve been hooked on it. Last November Pantelleria...
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See also 44 tasting notes in Willamette Valley Chardonnays reviewed. While Chardonnay was established among the very first vines of...
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Yohan Castaing sends this report. In 2015, the Bordelais are optimistic (as always), but they must show some restraint because...
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In their vineyard in the Collines Rhodaniennes, Pascal and Catherine Jamet’s labour of love is not lost.
Almost ten years...
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It is not all methoxypyrazines in Friuli’s Sauvignon Blanc, it seems. On 5 September the Udine district attorney began an...
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Catalunya-based wine writer Miquel Hudin sends this illustrated report. ‘Farid, what's this stick across my seat for?’ ‘Oh that… it's...
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Corpus linguistics studies language on the basis of real-life sampling. An analysis of Telmo Rodriguez' narratives would highlight the frequency...
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Andrew Howard MW continues his series on the UK's multiple retailers' wine ranges. Morrisons is one of the more recent...
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