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WWC25 – Ode to Romorantin, by Steven Norton
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Sunday 10 August 2025
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The following 177 wine reviews are in response to the several requests Purple Pagers have made for more coverage of...
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From €16.60, $25, £17.99 Find this wine Anjou is not a name to make the heart beat faster but some...
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Extinction is governed by two irreconcilable forces. On the one hand, natural laws of evolution demand that the weakest must...
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Loire courtiers Charles & Philippa Sydney write: The 2012 harvest is over. A few parcels of Chenin were left hanging...
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Loire wines really do need a bit more of a push. (I can hear Chinon broker Charles Sydney, whose vintage...
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€11.95, £11.50 Find this wine At long last we have published Richard's and my tasting notes from a showcase of...
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Charles (left, clearly enjoying the harvest) and Philippa Sydney, wine brokers in the Loire Valley with a passion for the...
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I was absolutely entranced by this wine when I tasted it...
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There is quite a kerfuffle online at the moment about the Anjou biodynamic, natural winemaker Olivier Cousin of Domaine Cousin-Leduc...
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European vintage reports are now flooding in thick and fast. The following account of the Loire Valley's prospects for 2011...
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From €10.32, £12.34, US$10.99 (for the 2009) Find this wine Find the 2009 Persistently grey skies over London this summer...
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From €7, £11.50, $16.95. La Noë is not the name of the producer, nor an obscure grape variety. It is...
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As has been remarked on our Members' forum recently, the Loire is a seriously underestimated source of wonderful wine –...
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From £13.75, $19.99 Find this wine There are definitely fashions in grape varieties, which makes life very difficult for grape...
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I tasted these wines blind in the cellars of Buckingham Palace recently. They had been submitted as possible purchases for...
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Charles and Philippa Sydney, boundlessly enthusiastic and highly successful courtiers (brokers) for Loire wines, based in Chinon, have sent us...
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