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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
The race to revive Santorini’s vineyards – and the challenges its winemakers are up against – in a time of crisis. Above, Sigalas’s Monachogios vineyard in Oia. It’s astonishing that...
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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Monty Waldin writes:
My latest book, Monty Waldin's Biodynamic Wine Guide 2011 [to be reviewed, along with the rest of...
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If one had to sum up the 2010 vintage in a nutshell, the one word to describe it best would...
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Cher Lim writes: When it comes to pairing beverages with Chinese food, it is best to obey the centuries-old rule...
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8 Nov Updated with three great champagne buys at the bottom of this introduction. 1.30pm, 5 Nov Updated with news...
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Rueda in autumn looks lunar. The landscape is steamrollered, featureless and plain, framed by distant mountains. The sunshine is steely...
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A word of warning, this article contains no reference to fresh acidity, fine-grained tannins or irresistible aromas but it's quite...
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Burgundy was looking lovely last week – all autumn colours, cool, crisp mornings and warm, sunny afternoons. Despite the rains...
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Ready or not, here comes winter, and with it the end to the 2010 growing season in not-so-sunny Northern California...
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Tamlyn Currin spends far too much of each week making sure that our tasting notes make sense, look as neat...
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Rural Provence has a certain timelessness: the fields of lavender, crumbling villages and rolling vineyards are an echo of a...
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As I have just pointed out in our Members' forum, I spent much of last week tasting Rhône 2009s –...
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On my arrival at the Fattoria Zerbina in Romagna, the first thing Cristina Geminiani showed me was a pair of...
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Written by Laura Conway. The third session of the Wine MBA took place this summer in Bordeaux, where we enjoyed...
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Last week, a fresh herd of first years were accepted on to the MW course, which made me reflect on...
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As the 33 trapped Chilean miners are finally winched up to the outside world, we are all feeling pretty excited...
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