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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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The campaign was predicted to be early and some relatively minor wines were indeed released yesterday. Hold on for more...
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There were 272 wines scoring 17 or above in March, from all four corners of the Wineiverse. A selection of...
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I’m starting to sound like a stuck record. I’m starting to sound like a stuck record.
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Gareth Skidmore lives in Burgundy, where he works as a translator and teaches wine-business English to Burgundians. St-Romain – a...
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Yesterday saw a posse of national and international media teams assembled to witness the first vines being planted (see the...
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Back in January we asked how interested you were in the Bordeaux 2011 primeurs. In Bordeaux 2011 survey – the...
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Just under one third of the 718 tasting notes uploaded into our database in February earned a score of 17...
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