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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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16 Sep – Updated below and see a very interesting light on the subject of authenticating old rare wine on...
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See the interesting discussion on our member's forum regarding these results. As well as my scores on all the 2006...
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See Linda's tasting notes next week. New York, one America's most progressive states and arguably its most powerful (Washington DC...
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In the last few days I have been in the Languedoc, Greater Burgundy and Bordeaux. As I have been reporting...
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Amarone, one of Italy's most famous wines, seems especially badly hit by the current economic situation, as outlined in Amarone...
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Domaine Serene arrives in London (2 Sep – Some of our purpler pagers went to the tasting. See their comments...
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Purple pager Ron Perry, professor of horticulture at Michigan State University, kindly collected me at the tiny Lansing airport and...
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Peter Sisseck, Danish-born wunderkind of northern Spain and the man behind the fabulously priced Pingus seems to have been particularly...
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An important and extremely detailed new book, What Price Bordeaux? by Benjamin Lewin MW, comes out from what I deduce...
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Yesterday was so hot we had to head for the sea. Today is even hotter. I can't remember such a...
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Bisso Atanassov, himself a Moscow-based wine importer as well as wine writer, so arguably less detached than ideal contributors to...
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A year has now passed since my first vineyard dispatch on 14 Aug 2008 [three weeks before our dramatic site...
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The ever-controversial subject of biodynamics waxes into view once more. This time in the form of a tasting designed to...
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