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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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See also David Gleave MW's update of the current, much discussed situation re Brunello 2003s back in Italy here...
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The news that Barney Rhodes, 88, of Rutherford, Napa Valley, has passed on to the great cellar in the sky...
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See also my overview of the growing season and the market and the wines. As purple pagers who have been...
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Two very pleasant surprises at this week’s blind tasting of the Premiers Grands Crus Classés de St-Émilion: Ch Pavie was...
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A report earlier this week on a recent study which tested 40 samples of red wine for pesticide residues makes...
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Nick and I had the enormous, and to me inexplicable, treat of dining at Windsor Castle last night at the...
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Water, water everywhere, and not a drop for vines to drink. McLaren Vale’s vines are within view of the ocean...
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Napa city’s Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food, and the Arts, is undergoing another makeover – its second since...
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UK upmarket supermarket chain Waitrose is running its French Wines Showcase from tomorrow 26 Mar to 27 Apr 2008. It...
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Here is the text of an email I received this morning which its sender, the founder of China's biggest wine...
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Richard sent the following message with this week’s report: “ apologies for the lateness, but the internet café in McLaren...
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Summary A very high quality vintage with particularly good freshness in the white wines. According to Tobal Morrhal, Wine Sociey...
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Southern Brazil Thanks to Vinhos Salton, Miolo Winery and Sven Martin Altorfer (The Wine Company) for information supplied. Late frosts...
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Summary Very good Torrontés and deeply coloured, fully ripe reds, especially Tannat, Malbec and Syrah in Salta in the north...
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Montevideo and Canelones (southern Uruguay) Thanks to Daniel Pisano and Juan Bouza for information supplied. Daniel Pisano, Bodegas Pisano, Progresso...
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