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The Smart Traveller's Wine Guides – book reviews
Ben Colvill
Monday 22 December 2025
• 1 min read
Tasting articles
Vega Sicilia – new releases 2026
With larger allocations and prices held steady, it’s an exciting year for buyers. Above, new Vega Sicilia managing director Jessica Julmy. Vega Sicilia has once again embarked on its annual...
Ferran Centelles
Monday 24 November 2025
• 3 min read
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WWC25 – Gazing into the eye of the hare, by Ricard Giner-Sariola
Guest contributor
Wednesday 27 August 2025
• 1 min read
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Don Francisco Javier Hurtado de Amézaga (left) was born in 1947, an important wine year both for both wines and...
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What is happening in Rioja today? It seems as though more and more wineries are looking backwards at established traditions...
Wines of the week
From £14.25 (until 4 Nov), €20.21, 36 Swiss francs, 314.49 Ukrainian Hryvna, 2,290 Roubles Find this wine As I reported...
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Pablo Álvarez (pictured) of Ribera del Duero's most respected bodega Vega Sicilia has finally announced what the two wines produced...
Tasting articles
For the background to CVNE and this tasting, see Viña Real – a classic from Rioja Alavesa. We tasted 21...
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Luis's tasting notes on this historic tasting can be read in Viña Real – 1933 to 2004. CVNE is the...
Wines of the week
From $24.99, €17.37, £17.59, 33.90 Swiss francs, Sing$79, Can$65 Find the 2000 Find the 2001 As Purple pagers who read...
Wines of the week
From €12.63, $21.47, £17.45, 194.95 Danish krone Find this wine White rioja is a funny old beast. It used to...
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Enrique Forner, founder of Marqués de Cáceres, responsible for the wine that is considered to be the first modern Rioja...
Tasting articles
Plenty of thoughts from our Purple pagers on the ageworthiness of rioja. See Rioja to last and Traditional rioja on...
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I love tasting wines I know absolutely nothing about. Not often but sometimes I make a great discovery. Best of...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.
Over the past few years I...
Tasting articles
What’s best in Rioja: a blend of Tempranillo with Garnacha and possibly a little Graciano or Mazuelo or single varietal...
Wines of the week
Find the Rioja Find the Mallorcan Yesterday in A sandpaper seven from Spain I highlighted some of the more aggressively...
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The Consejo Regulador or Control Board of the Rioja Denominación de Origen Calificada (D.O.Ca.) has announced a total harvest of...
Tasting articles
These notes on a collection of Riojas that are relatively easy to find in the UK supplement those published earlier...
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