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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...
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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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Today Walter turns his attention to Brunello di Montalcino, with an overview of this year's controversies and an introduction to...
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This is the first in a series of articles this week on Tuscan wines. See here for the tasting notes...
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'Maury sweet and dry' is the strapline announcing the recent changes to the Maury appellation in Roussillon in the far...
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'At the level we are, it’s much easier for quality to go down than up', said Paul Pontallier, the general...
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Koshu of Japan seems to be making real inroads into the UK. Yesterday's tasting at the Imagination Gallery in London...
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I don't often act as a blatant promoter of a single wine merchant's wares but a recent mailing reminded me...
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See this ensuing thread in the Members' forum. Today Michael Schmidt reviews a third tranche of Grosse Gewächse, most of...
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The news that Muscat has taken over Sauvignon Blanc’s third place after Chardonnay and Pinot Gris/Grigio as most popular white...
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D'Arenberg of McLaren Vale celebrated their centenary last week, jollifications undimmed, I'm told, by the fact that party animal Chester...
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As well as the flood of Burgundy 2010 notes that dominated January on Purple Pages, there were plenty of other...
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After I hung up the phone, my immediate thought was well, I can’t do it. I simply don’t know how...
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Written by Moscow-based wine writer Bisso Atanassov. Now that the new year has started, some figures about the 2011 wine...
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Because we have recently published so many tasting notes on the exciting 2010 vintage in eastern France ( 2,000 reviews...
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