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Floods hit Spain, Portugal, Italy, Monarch Tractor shuttered, early budbreak in California
Plus, a trade deal for China and South Africa, falling French wine and spirits exports, a legal case in Australia. And congratulations to Andrew Jefford, awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 14 February 2026
• 1 min read
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A detailed, complex and intensely refreshing Portuguese white from gnarly old vines high up in the Douro Valley. From €24.95...
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Nearly 100 new releases from Portugal: mostly shades of white. Pictured above, Anna Jorgensen of Cortes de Cima in the...
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See The resurgence of Pico's magnificent wines for background to the wines and producers described below.
The following 107 tasting...
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Julia realises a long-held dream of visiting this isolated Portuguese island in the middle of the Atlantic to discover its...
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Austrians like to check themselves out against the competition … including Château d'Yquem.
In the early 1990s the late Alois...
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A sizeable but little-known region of red and white wines named after, and freshened by, the longest river on the...
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Spain and Portugal offer particularly rich pickings for anyone looking for less expensive wines worth ageing. A shorter version of...
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Part 2 of my report from Porto on an exciting tasting of wines made by winegrowers with strong convictions, most...
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Buyers and collectors get ready: en primeur bordeaux tastings are underway, and declarations for 2022 vintage port are trickling out...
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The first instalment of a two-part report on some of the most exciting smaller winegrowers in the country. Today the...
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More than a hundred reds as a follow-up to last month's whites. Above, Quinta da Chocapalha in the Alenquer subregion...
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A returnee to Portugal’s Dão wine region rediscovers his own roots and makes superbly pure and elegant wines that show...
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Amphora, qvevri, talha, tareco, tinaja, pithari, karas – what’s the difference? Julia explains in a round-the-world tour of earthenware vessels...
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A celebration of two decades of Anglo-Portuguese co-operation and restless innovation. Most wine producers make more or less the same...
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Another wallow in Portuguese wines. This time, following on from Portuguese reds on a roll, the focus is on the...
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Plus some good news from Portugal. (Above, the waterfront in Vila Nova de Gaia.) But first, some exciting events coming...
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