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WWC25 – An ode to Merlot, by Cong Cong Bo
In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, MW student Cong Cong Bo – who was also recently profiled in this article as one of the shortlisted candidates for...
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Sunday 17 August 2025
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WWC25 – Merlot: from zero to hero, by Roz Lawson
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Wednesday 13 August 2025
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Bordeaux 2024 – right-bank reds
Reviews of the wines of the right bank, where Merlot predominates, in this uneven vintage. Above, harvest at Château Figeac in St-Émilion on 4 October 2024, captured by Gavin Quinney...
James Lawther MW
Monday 28 April 2025
• 7 min read
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2023 was challenging for Merlot, especially, but James finds the bright spots at this year's en primeur tastings. Above, another...
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Always consistent, sometimes inspired: these 94 wines showcase Napa’s talents – and that’s without even including Napa’s 2021 Cabernets, which...
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‘Vines, speak to us, please!’ might be the clarion call of the Bordeaux wine establishment at the moment. See our...
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Our reviews of the nascent wines tasted last month in Bordeaux continue … left-bank reds to follow on Monday. See...
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An overview based on tasting cask samples of well over 250 of the most important wines. See our guide to...
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Members of a new club, Castillon Caractères, deserve your attention. Knowing this, James asked them to lay on a tasting...
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The second part of a survey of the most important wines just reaching their tenth birthday. See tasting notes on...
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The first of our three reports on this year's blind-tasting marathon. See also this overview, tasting notes for left-bank reds...
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Continuing our look at this exciting vintage, we provide tasting notes on another 36 wines, some of them very famous...
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The second of three articles reassessing the 2011 vintage. Right-bank reds were published yesterday and sweet wines are still to...
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The first of three articles reassessing the 2011 vintage. Left-bank reds and sweet wines to follow; see also the guide...
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The first of three reports on this year's Southwold-on-Thames blind tasting of 2017 bordeaux, more socially distanced than usual as...
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A complete vertical of a Tuscan classic.
The Chianti Classico of the Mazzei family’s estate, nay village (see above), Fonterutoli...
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The annual Southwold-on-Thames tastings were exceptional this year. Here we all are, hard at work, overlooked by François Mitjavile of...
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From £32.99, 58 Swiss francs Find this wine This is a wine I would love to serve blind in Bordeaux...
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8 August 2017 I have just received this report from Franchetti on this year's exceptionally dry growing season in Tuscany...
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