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Azenhas do Mar, Portugal
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The wines of this Portuguese region are emerging from the shadows of their history. Above, Azenhas do Mar in Colares. Come back tomorrow for wine reviews and producer details. Four...

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Inside information Rueda in autumn looks lunar. The landscape is steamrollered, featureless and plain, framed by distant mountains. The sunshine is steely...
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Inside information 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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Inside information Burgundy was looking lovely last week – all autumn colours, cool, crisp mornings and warm, sunny afternoons. Despite the rains...
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Inside information 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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Inside information Tamlyn Currin spends far too much of each week making sure that our tasting notes make sense, look as neat...
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Inside information Rural Provence has a certain timelessness: the fields of lavender, crumbling villages and rolling vineyards are an echo of a...
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Inside information As I have just pointed out in our Members' forum, I spent much of last week tasting Rhône 2009s –...
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Inside information On my arrival at the Fattoria Zerbina in Romagna, the first thing Cristina Geminiani showed me was a pair of...
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Inside information Written by Laura Conway. The third session of the Wine MBA took place this summer in Bordeaux, where we enjoyed...
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Inside information Last week, a fresh herd of first years were accepted on to the MW course, which made me reflect on...
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Inside information As the 33 trapped Chilean miners are finally winched up to the outside world, we are all feeling pretty excited...
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Inside information Italy's infatuation with international grape varieties shows no signs of waning. While the majority of wine-producing regions, especially from the...
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Inside information The ambitious aim of the European Union to organise all of Europe's wine regions into a single system more or...
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Inside information Christophe Coupez of the Chambre d'Agriculture's official oenology bureau in Pauillac has sent us this update on his earlier report...
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Inside information Cher Lim writes: Chinese desserts have never been famous as the best companions for wine, especially those made from traditional...
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Inside information One of the highlights of the VDP (German premium wine producers' association) 100th anniversary celebrations was the series of three...
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