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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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On the heels of his July purchase (with Ste Michelle Wine Estates) of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, Piero Antinori has...
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In the company of the head sommeliers from two of Gordon Ramsay’s London restaurants, La Noisette and Maze, I blind...
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Brian and Ann Croser, whose wine empire was acquired by Lion Nathan in 2001, finally regained ownership of the flagship...
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A spell of unusually cool, grey, damp weather has interrupted the 2007 grape harvest in northern California but this could...
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Written by Dr Donald A Dibbern Jr. As a board-certified allergy physician, as well as an avid wine enthusiast, I...
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With the increasing presence of hotshot, high-scoring California Pinot Noirs in the market ( Aubert, Black Kite, Emeritus, Kosta Browne...
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The US Government, more specifically the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), recently published a ‘final notice’ confirming...
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Federico Vincenzi sent me the following results of a blind tasting of the 2005 vintage from various smaller but locally...
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While I am not known for my unbridled enthusiasm for German Pinot Noir, aka Spätburgunder, I jumped at the opportunity...
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