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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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These are my (obviously) unedited notes taken while listening to Egon Müller presenting the wines described in tasting notes at...
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I shall be publishing an overview of the exceptional 2005 vintage on New Year's Eve in fine wine news but...
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Attentive visitors to this site will know that Egon Müller, producer of truly great Saar wine from the Scharzhofberger vineyard...
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Vinsobres and Beaumes-de-Venise have been elevated from being nominated specific Côtes-du-Rhône Villages to wallowing their own appellations, just like Gigondas...
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This is a great time of year for champagne bargains – certainly in the UK anyway. I am indebted to...
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Julia Harding MW wrote this useful explanatory article in 2003 when £1.19 excise duty was charged on every bottle of...
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Ch Lafite is renovating its cellars and chais for only the fifth time in its history. This follows dramatic renovation...
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Fellow Master of Wine Igor Ryjenkov of Toronto has sent me the following interesting observations on the effects and incidence...
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After a hiatus following the departure of long-term winemaker John Durham from Cape Mentelle, the LVMH subsidiary will take on...
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As I wrote in wine news last Saturday, the range offered by the most powerful retailers in the UK (many...
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Purple pager James Stark of Sheffield reports that he was able to buy the delicious Charles Heidsieck Mis en Cave...
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The Carignan vine tends to divide wine drinkers. You either love it or loathe it. In general, as longstanding purple...
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Longstanding purple pagers may remember Frédéric Ducos of Ch Laulan-Ducos in the Médoc who has regularly sent us despatches about...
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David Schildknecht sends the following report on the 2005 harvest in Germany: Middle Mosel growers largely started picking this past...
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The first thing to say about the trio of wines finally released from South Africa banker G T Ferreira’s luxury...
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