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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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Wine writer, Savoie specialist and purple pager Wink Lorch reports on the inaugural meeting of the Centre d’Ampélographie Alpine Pierre...
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See our tasting notes on 2005 St-Emilions.
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See here for my tasting notes on more than 40 Douro 2005 table wines.
Six magnums of the Douro Boys'...
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At 11 yesterday morning I was in the bowels of Buckingham Palace tasting as part of work helping to select...
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18 Dec – the latest development is that yesterday the TTB extended the public comment period, which was due to...
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