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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
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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Spent yesterday in Ampuis celebrating Marcel Guigal’s elevation as Decanter Man of the Year 2006. High points included tasting the...
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Yesterday I was asked to give a tutored tasting entitled Cutting Edge Wines from Spain at the annual generic Spanish...
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Last Friday I took part in a thoroughly enjoyable tasting of about 50 of the best right bank and Pessac-Léognan...
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This year’s Pol Roger Oxbridge Wine Tasting Challenge, held today at the Oxford & Cambridge Club in London (yes, very...
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16 sep: See a spirited response to this from Stephen Browett of Farr Vintners in your turn and David’s response...
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Pierre Lurton, double-header supreme in his capacity as director of both Ch Cheval Blanc and Ch d’Yquem, was in London...
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Recent business graduate Viv Menon was supported by a Geoffrey Roberts Award 2005 to go on a fact finding mission...
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These brief comments on 2005 in various wine regions outside Europe, California and Australia from Julia Harding MW are in...
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Final tranche of small-lot wines that impressed me more than most in the 2004 burgundy tastings, though overall whites are...
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Again, in even greater haste, a second tranche of top picks from the rarer 2004 burgundies tasted (I should add...
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On the hoof, some of the rarer highlights from yesterday’s tastings: Bernard Morey, Chassagne Montrachet Blanc, Baudines and Embrazées (Genesis)...
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This is a ridiculous week for any London-based wine professional with an interest in Burgundy. There have long been a...
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Jan Paulson of www.rare-wine.com kindly reports: Over the year I am fortunate enough to receive a large number of invitations...
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