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Tariff lawsuits, Chile's 2025 harvest, lightweighting bottles, harnessing soil microbes
Also a new interactive map of Marlborough's wine regions. Hours of fun and education for New Zealand wine buffs and map lovers alike. A win against the Trump tariffs During...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 31 May 2025
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Spain's heat and France's floods, Majestic's wine-bar acquisition, natural fungal controls
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Tuesday 9 April 2024
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WWC23 – Hanneli Smit, by Cerina van Niekerk
In this entry to our 2023 wine writing competition, winemaker Cerina van Niekerk writes about South African wine scientist Hanneli Smit. See our competition guide for more. Cerina van Niekerk...
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Saturday 19 August 2023
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So much has evolved and improved in Argentina since my last visit there, regrettably long ago in December 2005, just...
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The following notes and images formed the basis of a presentation on microbial terroir (a new entry in the latest...
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11 August 2016 Today’s Throwback Thursday article, first published a month ago and now free, shows just how much progress...
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4 August 2016 Microbes are everywhere, and there’s a growing interest in their decisive role in the vineyard and the...
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If you read my article earlier this year about heroic microbiologists, you will know that I am increasingly fascinated by...
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