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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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Graham Nutter of Ch St-Jacques d'Albas sends us this heartfelt report on a difficult vintage in the Minervois, Languedoc. The...
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9.30am 14 Oct The court has now given its rather mild verdict: a two-month suspended prison sentence for the majority...
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I have a lot of time for Pekka Nuikki, editor and publisher of FINE wine publications, based in Finland but...
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The 2011 vintage seems to be going really rather well in Germany. See below for some recent reports, the most...
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While Italy has barely finished harvesting what is generally considered a hot and early vintage, news has emerged that, against...
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Romain Taupenot of Domaine Taupenot-Merme sends this report. 2011 is certainly not going to be the vintage of the century...
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It shouldn’t be called a dissertation. It should be called academic waterboarding. The only thing more torturous than doing an...
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Umay Çeviker writes: I first met Jonathan Wurdeman less than two years ago. I had made frequent business trips to...
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See the forum for further comments on these stats. The Australians have been working hard to woo the Chinese with...
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As I pointed out in Terroir spotting in Trentino – part 1, it is not well known that Trentino has...
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[Now with Gavin's photographs] Gavin Quinney writes: It has been a few years since the Barton family of Château Langoa...
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European vintage reports are now flooding in thick and fast. The following account of the Loire Valley's prospects for 2011...
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Last week's Copa Jerez food and sherry matching competition was a revelation in how versatile Andalucía's most underrated wine is...
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A couple of weeks ago I received the first impressions of the 2011 vintage in Montalcino from Katia Nussbaum, who...
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Herewith a roundup of news from Bordeaux, including a detailed report on the 2011 vintage so far.
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The 2011 grape harvest across Europe has been a varied one, with grape health threatened in many areas thanks to...
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