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Wartime wine stories continued
If you were intrigued by Jancis's Wine in wartime article on Saturday about wine professionals displaced by conflict, read more here. Above, Walid Habchi pictured in his vineyard in Lebanon...
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Wednesday 29 January 2025
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A highly unusual, thoroughly satisfying wine made at the Purcari winery above and designed to raise money for the Ukrainian...
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Tim Hall of Scala Wine, an avid Champagne-watcher, gives the low-down on Russia's recent wine-labelling diktat.
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28 January 2021 Wine lovers will be intrigued by how big a part new vineyards and luxurious wineries play in...
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A clutch of Russian wines turned out to be rather impressive.
A Belgian wine importer contacted me to suggest I...
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A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See also Doing business in and around Crimea...
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This, a Throwback Thursday republished article, was first published on 29 October 2009 after my visit to the winelands of...
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Written by Moscow-based wine writer Bisso Atanassov. Now that the new year has started, some figures about the 2011 wine...
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Moscow-based wine writer and importer Bisso Atanassov has kept us informed of the absurdities and frustrations of the Russian wine...
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Written by Moscow-based wine writer Bisso Atanassov. The Russian wine market continues to be an unpredictable concoction of local producers'...
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I took part in an extraordinary tasting of 120 'treasures' from the Soviet era during my recent visit to Russia's...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times .
I feel rather ashamed of...
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For the first time on a wine trip I felt rather like an explorer on my recent visit to Russia...
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I'm sitting in Vienna airport on my way home from a most surprising trip to the winelands on Russia's Black...
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Here's a little quiz. I'm currently in Russia, learning about the wines produced in the far south of the country...
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Bisso Atanassov, himself a Moscow-based wine importer as well as wine writer, so arguably less detached than ideal contributors to...
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