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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 Written by Dr José Vouillamoz. Merlot is a natural progeny of Cabernet Franc and a previously unknown red grape named...
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Inside information Bill Foley is rapidly becoming a big cheese in West Coast winemaking, evidenced by his latest winery purchase, Sebastiani Vineyards...
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Inside information My day in the vineyard this week felt like a grey-scale rendered version of reality. A heavy slate sky had...
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Inside information One of the major concerns among fine wine lovers today has become the problem known as 'premature oxidation' in white...
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Inside information On 16 Dec, I made a familiar drive east on Highway 128 through Sonoma county’s Alexander Valley, en route to...
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Inside information Liv-ex is the London-based electronic trading platform for fine wine that has grown into quite a resource of information on...
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Inside information With apologies to all who don't live in London, here are the details of two promising tastings next month. Note...
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Inside information Some of you may remember Richard Neville, who kindly wrote this account of Bruges for travel tips and this exceptionally...
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Inside information The battles in the closure universe over TCA-derived cork taint and oxygen transmission rates are still being waged, with a...
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Inside information The last Saturday of November saw a most unusual encounter between the so-called Old and New Worlds in the company...
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Inside information Written by Mel Jones. I’m feeling pretty fortified at the moment. I ran a tawny port tasting a couple of...
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Inside information Few sights can be more classically bucolic, surely, than a handful of shotgun cartridges kept for safekeeping in a case...
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Inside information ...Some coming up very much more rapidly than others. PARIS TONIGHT 4 DEC If you’re in Paris tonight, you are...
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Inside information Klaus Peter Keller (pictured here with his wife Julia) provides some phenological data for 2008 in his vineyards around Flörsheim-Dalsheim...
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Inside information The 2008 California growing season had it all: frost, wind, drought, heat and smoke from massive wildfires. With more adversity...
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Inside information An ambitious tasting of Italian Rieslings held in Alto Adige on 8 Nov showed that Italy needs to focus on...
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