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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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I was discussing the issues involved in water use by wine producers by email with David Graves of Saintsbury winery...
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Linden Wilkie is a youngish New Zealander who came to London a few years ago with a keen interest in...
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See here for my tasting notes. Like Benjamin Romeo, Abel Mendoza Monge is in San Vicente de la Sonsierra in...
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Benjamin Romeo was winemaker at Artadi for 15 years. For the last five years...
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See here for my tasting notes. Marqués de Riscal is like a little village in its own right – they...
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Here is a preview summary of a massive blind tasting of 2001 red bordeaux held recently, a description of which...
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I taste wines “made” by famous athletes with a good slug of scepticism (there are at least 10 of them)...
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It appears that Napa’s Beaulieu Vineyard will finally be able to treat its most important wine, the Georges de Latour...
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When Allen Shoup retired in 2000 as CEO of Washington state’s largest wine company, Stimson Lane (now Ste Michelle Wine...
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