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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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The Assoenologi, Italy’s association of oenologists, has officially declared the 2009 vintage ‘very good’, a positive assessment in an otherwise...
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After my last diary entry, bemoaning the financial perils of juggling self-employment, loan applications and the MW course fees, I...
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FINE Wine Magazines, run from Finland but with editions in many important wine markets, have just released their stab at...
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Written by Giles Fallowfield. Non-vintage champagne based on the 2009 harvest should be particularly good, even though we may have...
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On 13 Oct, one week ago, the Napa Valley Vintners Association presented its 2009 harvest report to the media. Winemakers...
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My fate is sealed. Last week came the letter that was pleased to let me know that I have been...
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Purple pager Arjen Pen writes this shameless plug for his wine investment company. We present it as it is, and...
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Written by Tim James. Pinot Noir was probably first planted in South Africa in the 1920s (the crossing with Cinsaut...
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Oltrepò Pavese, located south of Milan in the south of Lombardy, remains one of Italy's most obscure wine regions. Sandwiched...
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3 Jun 2011: Monty Waldin gives us an indepth technical profile on Greywacke. Kevin Judd, for more than 20 years...
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Those who read my detailed account of the Great Danish Wine Dinner in Even better 'wines of the century'? will...
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I recently received the following touching email from Rheingau-raised California winemaker Walter Schug and thought it appropriate to publish it...
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