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Free for all Old vineyards get an official seal

Breaking news! The Old Vine Registry is breaking records, barriers and new ground. And now, The Old Vine Registry seal. On 26 June 2023, a group of wine lovers, dedicated...

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The sun sets over Numanthia's old-vine vineyards in Toro, Spain.
Tasting articles Bodega Numanthia offers a fresh, elegant take on Toro. I will never look at a Toro wine in quite the...
The Goulburn River spilled over its banks, flooding the vineyards at Tahbilk.
Max on Oz Floods and drought collide in eastern Australia. The last time the cellars flooded at Mitchelton was 1974, just after the...
Kanonkop Pinotage vertical lined up on 10 May 2022
Tasting articles Tim Jackson MW spells out exactly how a controversial variety can be persuaded to make great wine. Kanonkop have long...
Genot-Boulanger - red-wine-soaked hands
Wines of the week It's the time of year when it's worth pushing the wine-of-the-week boat out. Although, by Burgundy standards, this wine is...
Villa Bogdano Zabeo vineyard in winter
Tasting articles Italy has its own rich repository of old vines and we begin Old Vine Week by reporting, as with so...
Vine growing through the wall in Clos Cristal Saumur
Tasting articles This collection of wines from Champagne, the Loire and south-west France may look like a motley crew, but the wines...
Zani Il Vigneto Storico c Ben Little
Tasting articles A very small-scale look at a big subject this week. See this guide to our extensive coverage of old vines...
Dom des Schistes - old Roussillon vines in winter
Tasting articles Later on 12 September In last week's old-vine article Tam wrote about Domaine Jones based in Fitou on the southern...
WWC21 Howard C - Evangelho_Map 1894
Free for all 8 September 2022 We’re republishing the winning entry to last year’s writing competition with its old-vine theme to remind you...
Dom de Cebene - Brigitte Chevalier doing assemblage
Tasting articles Last week's old-vine wines came from Iberia (see part 4 of the series). This week we're still in the sunny...
One of the isolated, old Toro vineyards owned by Numanthia
Tasting articles We've got a full house for Spanish (and, sadly, just two Portuguese – I'm sure there are many more examples...
The Kodkod logo drawn by Clara McRostie
Tasting articles The third instalment of our old-vine wines series takes us to South America. There are two very special stories here...
Natte Valleij winery
Tasting articles The second instalment of our old-vine wine stories is set in South Africa (go to Lebanon for the first). For...
Dom des Tourelles - old vineyards in the Bekaa Valley
Tasting articles The first of an ongoing series on old-vine wines. We start in Lebanon, with what may perhaps be some of...
Kate McKinlay Dom de Mourchon three vines of different ages in the heatwave
Free for all Today is the inaugural Old Vine Day. To celebrate, we begin a series focused on vineyards' most venerable residents. Today's...
WWC22 Fatouros - Ms Mahalin in her winery
Free for all See our WWC22 guide for more. We're publishing this entry to our 2022 writing competition with heavy hearts. The climate...
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