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Great buys available in the UK and farther afield – including some naturally lower-alcohol wines. Above, left to right: Reon Richter, Leana Coetzee, Mari Branders, Juandre Bruwer – the core...
Andy Howard MW
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One of the great mysteries of the wine world is why the British are so bad at Italian wine. American...
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Thirty-five years ago Pio Tosini, who died earlier this year aged 95, lost an argument that has had a profound...
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Rain makes vignerons sad and truffle hunters happy so make what you will of my damp experiences filming here. I...
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While Sicily is in a state of wine revolution (see Sicily – Italy's new California), there are signs that vinous...
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The funny thing about Lazio, the Italian wine region of which Rome is capital, is how relatively un-winey it is...
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Italy now has an 'international' grape variety, says Jancis Robinson If you spent your summer holiday in Tuscany or Umbria...
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Like most wine geeks I have happily swallowed the old saw that such increasingly fashionable grape varieties as Greco, Grecanico...
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It's that time of year, when a freak hailstorm can fatally damage a swathe of nearly-ripe grapes. Italy has had...
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These are the current releases from Umbria's top producer, posted here as background to my news story One Umbrian bows...
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Lungarotti, the first producer most of us ever associated with Umbria ('the new Tuscany' TM) via his Torgiano red, has...
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Riccardo Cotarella, who already seems to make half the wine in Italy (Montiano, Falesco, Vitiano, and those are just his...
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Time was when Italian wine producers were men of their village. They knew every nook and cranny of their native...
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