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Wildfires burn Aude, Corsica and California, super-light wine bottles, new GI for Argentina
Plus 1,500 alcohol-store closures in China and mining projects in the vineyard lands of New Zealand and Australia. Wildfires burn Southern France and California France is currently experiencing its largest...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 9 August 2025
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Wine news in 5
Update on Southern Glazer's lawsuit, Blaye becomes Blavia, new wine packaging sizes
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 11 January 2025
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times.
Aware of glass bottles’ heavy carbon footprint, Rosemary Cakebread...
Book reviews
As it's English Wine Week, it seems a good time for reviews of a couple of books, recently published, on...
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'Sumer is icumen in' – isn't it? A version of this article is published by the Financial Times.
This summer...
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7 April 2021 See this report by Alder on Nomen, a new American wine brand deliberately packaged in high quality...
Tasting articles
23 January 2021 Tasting notes on two more canned wines added – an Albariño and Shiraz from First Crush.
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Wine has replaced beer as the common man and woman's drink. A version of this article is published by the...
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Two new ways to package and deliver small quantities of wine that look seriously promising … and deeply sustainable.
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Miami-based Sarah Phillips of Liv-ex, winner of last summer's writing competition, swapped classed growths for canned wine for a while...
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What's very good, and occasionally bad, about the substantially transformed Argentine wine scene. A shorter version of this article is...
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Ramifications of carbon-emission considerations. Glass v the rest. Rail v air. And more.
On Saturday, in Glass dimissed?, I put...
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3 March 2020 See the end of this article for a response from FEVE – the European Container Glass Federation...
Nick on restaurants
Nick, Unpacker in Chief, gets cross about how these bottles were packaged. It’s that time of the year again, the...
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A collection of good intentions. A version of this article is published by the Financial Times.
Drink more wine.
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Alder on America
The US – China trade war has had far-reaching effects on the California wine industry, not least in its choice...
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12 December 2019 This article is so important that we are republishing it free so that as many people as...
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7 November 2019 We so enjoyed Burton Anderson’s fascinating and wry article that we are republishing it free today. Meanwhile...
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