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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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Umay Çeviker writes:
Turkey 2023. Is this a vintage prediction or some sort of prediction on climate change? No, it...
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Last Wednesday 11 June 2014 the German wine industry lost one of its all-time great producers, Bernhard Huber, the 55-year-old...
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This is my final report on what happened on the stage at the MW Florence Symposium (although see tomorrow's tasting...
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Based on a report supplied by Yohan Castaing. Update: Jean-Christophe Mau writes to Jancis to say, 'Bad news for Lesparre...
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Our penultimate article on the MW Florence Symposium is one half of my detailed report on perhaps the most important...
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Yohan Castaing sends this news round-up. May is an extremely important month in France. Not just for the huge number...
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