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Wildfires burn Aude, Corsica and California, super-light wine bottles, new GI for Argentina
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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Alder Yarrow charts the new big thing in wine in the US. We're very pleased to publish a monthly column...
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See this guide for links to all the articles in our 2018 coverage of rosé wines. 19 July 2018 Tam's...
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29 March 2018 We are resurrecting this article in our Throwback Thursday series partly because its 10-year-old content is an...
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My life has changed in so many ways since we moved into our brand-new flat on 5 December 2016. The...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times . See also Alder on the...
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Longstanding visitors to this site will know of my campaign against unnecessarily heavy bottles. I'm pleased that there is now...
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See our Guide to 2009 Rhône coverage. There are some lovely wines among the hundreds described below but my tastings...
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I'm in love. The other day I finally opened a large yellow and red box that had been sent to...
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I have long thought that there are several fortunes to be made by enterprising industrial designers prepared to help us...
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I have just published my very enthusiastic tasting notes on Chapoutier's 2009 Sélections Parcellaires. Because I was out of the...
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Oxidation, oxidation, oxidation. Not a recent UK election slogan modelled on Tony Blair's 2007 priorities for government, 'Education, education, education'...
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See a new report on the potential for safely using lighter bottles for sparkling wines here . Unlike most, South...
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When Spanish wine producer, journalist and active purple pager Victor de la Serna told us on our members’ forum how...
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Those who have been following our campaign against unnecessarily heavy wine bottles (see, for example, Name and shame heavy bottles)...
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