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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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Look out for a plethora of tasting notes on Italy's recent fine vintages next week – JR It is not...
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Bordeaux-based writer Jane Anson reports. 19 May It seems nothing in Bordeaux is definitive. In May 2009 the French courts...
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Champagne Bollinger presented itself in London yesterday with the chief viticulturist Gilles Descotes and winemaker Mathieu Kauffmann presenting the changes...
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Naked Wines, arguably Britain's most interactive online wine merchant, teamed up last Wednesday with the Australian Trade Commission, Austrade, in...
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In More Pinots, inc burgundies, Jancis mentioned a compound called cineole, currently being investigated by the Australian Wine Research Institute...
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Written by Sarah Ahmed. If Menetou Salon, Quincy and Reuilly are the poor relations of Sancerre and Pouilly Fumé, spare...
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My hard disc is groaning with pictures of vineyards. Trellised to terraced, sunbaked to moonlit, verdurous to naked. When I...
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I was back amidst the vines this week after an enforced four week hiatus. The enforcement was entirely beyond my...
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Bordeaux-based writer Jane Anson reports. Two leading Bordeaux châteaux have announced plans to build new wineries on their estates. Both...
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It may seem difficult to believe that spring is on its way in Britain, but Ascot Racecourse is dangling the...
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The governmental body of the province of Piemonte which is responsible for all matters and regulations concerning viticulture, Il Comitato...
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While I was in Central Otago in the south of New Zealand recently, I met Robin Dicey of Mt Difficulty...
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Many of us who buy fine wine regularly want to buy or sell small quantities of mature wines, but the...
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The French Conseil d’État, France’s highest admininstrative court, has annulled the decree which legally established Vignobles de France (literally, 'vineyards...
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