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Saturday 7 February 2026
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Increased attention to subregions and individual style has made this category more interesting than ever. Pictured above, the Appellation Marlborough...
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Terroir, talent and tenaciousness meld to create a region packed full of some of the most downright scrummy wines anywhere...
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Two dozen generally excellent wines from New Zealand's North Island. Above, Elephant Hill, whose Chardonnay and bordeaux blend each garnered...
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Florencia Gomez, an Argentine-born, London-based oenologist turned MW candidate, lent us a hand this busy autumn season, joining Julia at...
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A hard-nosed assessment of the Bordeaux trade's current attempt to widen its portfolio outside the Gironde. Above, Zuccardi's Finca Canal...
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New Zealand's answer to Burgundy is feeling the cold. See also North Canterbury in 2023. A slightly shorter version of...
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The last set of tasting notes from Jancis's tour of some of New Zealand's finest wine producers last February.
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Vastly better than 2022 for some, and much worse for others, 2023 was a tale of two islands, and a...
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Our fifth report on the seven New Zealand wine regions visited in February. Just North Canterbury still to come.
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Some great wines reviewed in the calm before the storm.
You have to visit Hawke’s Bay on the east coast...
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Jancis’s recent New Zealand tour took in rich men’s wineries on Waiheke Island (above) and the Bay of Islands. Man...
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New Zealand's southernmost wine region has so much more to offer than its increasingly compelling Pinot Noir.
Sunny ‘Central’, as...
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One of the wine world's extraordinary success stories picked apart. A shorter version of this article is published by the...
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Fine Chardonnay, delicious Riesling, subtle and ageworthy Sauvignon Blanc – just some of the discoveries to be made in the...
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A plea from the cyclone-hit east coast of the North Island. Above, the Omahu vineyard in the Gimblett Gravels in...
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