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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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19 Feb - See the answer here. 4 Jan – If last weekend's Journal is truly indicative, the answer to...
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Charities which focus on the production of wines can expect to elicit the same reaction most organic wines have provoked...
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After months of speculation, leading importer and distributor of wine in China ASC announced earlier today that the majority stake...
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It's crisp and cold in London today, perfect weather for one of my favourite wines, madeira, wonderfully crisp yet warming...
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Until recently, I had always viewed Chilean wine as a bit like vacuum-packed pasta: dependable and functional but hardly exciting...
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Written by Giles Fallowfield. Champagne retail prices in France and the UK continue to fall, depressed by stocks at an...
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The UK pre-Christmas supermarket champagne wars are hotting up. See members' forum for comment on Morrisons supposed special deal on...
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An eclectic mix of winemakers (Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon Vineyard, Zelma Long of Long Vineyards and Vilafonte and the...
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As I reported here, in a 24-hour period in mid October, between 2 and 10 inches (5–25 cm) of rain...
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Michael Schmidt, who last month gave us an excellent and detailed account of the 2008 and 2007 Grosse Gewächse German...
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To European colonists, the Marlborough region in New Zealand must have looked ideal for grape-growing: striking hillsides offering every thinkable...
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In a move that is unlikely to make her many friends among other producers of Hermitage, Caroline Frey, Paul Jaboulet...
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