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The Jancis Robinson Story, episode 6 – maturing
The penultimate episode of a seven-part podcast series giving the definitive story of Jancis’s life and career so far. For the rest of the series, click here. This episode is...
Richard Hemming MW
Sunday 14 December 2025
• 29 min read
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From iron ore to flor in South Africa's wild west
On South Africa’s remote West Coast an unlikely fortified-wine revival is taking place. Malu Lambert reports. Saldanha’s castle is an improbable one. As you stream into the West Coast outpost...
Guest contributor
Thursday 11 December 2025
• 1 min read
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Matching wine with Asian food, part 4 – floral/fragrant and citric
Richard Hemming MW
Thursday 11 December 2025
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A great vintage for Nebbiolo in Barbaresco, from entry-level to cru wines. Come back on Friday for the tasting notes...
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Lakeside vineyards, volcanic slopes, myriad native varieties and a new generation of energetic winemakers – Balaton is being reborn as...
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Is Zero Dosage a good thing? What's the ideal sweetness level in champagne? Read on. The Drappier family above, left...
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Julia realises a long-held dream of visiting this isolated Portuguese island in the middle of the Atlantic to discover its...
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Guest contributor Noah Chichester reports on the rush to snap up land in the north-west corner of Spain, where the...
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A quick-fire en primeur campaign has begun – but are the wines worth buying, and will the price be right...
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Amanda Barnes, a specialist in South American wine, makes a strong case for looking outside of Serra Gaúcha and into...
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The year of peronospora and, again, heat. Above, the view from Castiglione towards La Morra. 2023 may go into the...
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Thoughts on a blind tasting of more than 260 wines from the 2020 vintage at the Southwold tastings in London...
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Impressions of the newly released burgundies after tasting several hundred of them in London last week. The views of merchants...
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From Napa names such as Dalla Valle, Eisele, Spottswoode and Shafer to his own label in Oregon, Tony Soter has...
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A sea of tranquillity – and in quantity, too. Above, the Côte d'Or looking south from Gevrey-Chambertin, early September 2022...
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Another nail-biter, but this time with higher volumes than 2022, and an overall positive outlook. Above, the 2023 harvest at...
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As Washington's wine industry trembles, landless young labels and historic old vineyards are strengths the state can lean into. Above...
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What does the vintage produced in COVID times look like? Walter gives us a foretaste of wines that will be...
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Rain, downy mildew and hail made for a complicated vintage – particularly for those aiming to follow organic principles in...
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