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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
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We don't very often write about an individual importer, preferring to group tasting notes by region or style. But sometimes...
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On Saturday I’ll be surveying how the wine scene has changed over the last 30 years, so I have been...
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‘Blending masks terroir’. This statement has remained strongly in my mind since I first read it in Educvin: Votre Talent...
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3 May I have just added reviews of three wines from Alonso del Yerro which is clearly managing to harness...
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From €8.90, £14.22 for the Tradicional; and €6.20, £14.40 for the Vatua!
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It may...
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From £11.50 I have tasted two superb Spanish whites made from Albillo grapes recently. This together with the fact that...
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Because I am Catalan, Cava is a wine I am very accustomed to drinking; it is an indispensable companion to...
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15 Jan 2015 Our Throwback Thursday offering, first published two years ago, is this useful backgrounder on the multi-talented but...
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This complements my March article on Rare Spanish white wine grapes. ICEX (Spain's export trade institute) catalogues 93 major local...
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From £7.85, €9.95, 2,295 yen Find the Contino 2011 Find the CVNE Barrel Fermented 2013 / CVNE Viña Real 2013...
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For a guide to all these regional and stylistic collections of tasting notes, see Sorting through the assortments. Richard writes...
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Pago is a Spanish word that might cause confusion for wine consumers. It has many different meanings. According to the...
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The 1964 vintage is famous in the Rioja region so I leapt at the chance to taste a selection before...
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A shorter version of this article is also published by the Financial Times. We were entertaining an American specialist in...
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From €12.90, £16.99 Find this wine This wine is truly exceptional for all sorts of reasons and I can't tell...
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Nick has been writing this week about our summers in the western Languedoc (extremely changeable, almost cool weather this summer...
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