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Global wine production falls, burgundy bottles lighten up, UK hospitality sector struggles
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 14 November 2025
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Berry's wine tasting for The Drinks Trust
Team JR
Thursday 30 October 2025
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To celebrate last week's series of declarations of 2017 vintage port (we'll publish tasting notes on as many as possible...
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A sound recommendation for any visitor to Oporto. See also today's account of Ferreira's vintage ports back to 1847...
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Are port's fortunes on the turn? This article has been syndicated.
Many, many years ago, in the early 1990s, I...
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Northern Portugal really is a year-round tourist destination.
A trip that begins in Bordeaux and ends in Oporto, such as...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Two of the wine world’s most important luminaries have...
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Sweet and fortified wines for drinking over the festive season, a follow-up to dry whites and reds. A version of...
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A tasting of mature ports that was glorious but tinged with sadness. See also Two men we will miss...
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A most unusual trio of names unravelled. See update at the bottom for the record price fetched at auction.
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A plea for a change in how the Douro Valley works from Paul Symington, on the verge of retirement from...
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This is the final part of our review of the Big Fortified Tasting (BFT) in London earlier this year. For...
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A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times, in an issue of the magazine whose theme...
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2013 from £14.95 Older vintages from CA$17.35, €13.90, £12.99, 23.20 Swiss francs, $24.81, 169 Danish krone, NZ$43.99, 2,065 roubles, HK$278...
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To coincide with the declaration of 2016 as a vintage year for port, we're publishing this 2016 vintage report from...
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4 August 2018 Note on Quinta de la Rosa 2016 added. 8 June 2018 We continue to add tasting notes...
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26 March 2018 Please see Paul Symington's coda below the two tasting notes at the end of this article.
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The church of St Mary's, Wimbledon in south London was packed on a suitably sunny day last Thursday with friends...
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