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WWC25 – Ode to Romorantin, by Steven Norton
Technology columnist Steven Norton writes this engaging entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about a COVID-era encounter with Romorantin that sparked his love for this French grape variety. For...
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Sunday 10 August 2025
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Wine news in 5
Champagne news, hail hits the Loire, Barossa uproar, RIP Angela Muir MW
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 26 July 2025
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Wine news in 5
Hail and fires in France, Australian organics upset, a Burgundy–UK venture
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 12 July 2025
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Chris Hardy of Charles Sydney Wines sends this encouraging interim report on the Loire 2017 vintage. He was unable to...
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In the invitation to this tasting, the first ever held in London by the Union des Gens de Métier, the...
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The 2016 vintage in the Loire was both blessed and cursed. Blessed by superb quality fruit, but cursed by frost...
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From €8.30, 1,800 Japanese yen, 93 Danish krone, £11, 17 Swiss francs, AU$34.95 Find the Bonnet-Huteau Les Gautronnières 2015 Find...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See my full tasting notes on the wines mentioned...
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Purple Pager Thomas De Waen is a massive wine enthusiast, and a particularly proactive one. I searched for 'Waen' in...
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