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Nick on restaurants
Alta, an oasis of calm – for now
Nick Lander
Sunday 30 November 2025
• 1 min read
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Vega Sicilia – new releases 2026
Ferran Centelles
Monday 24 November 2025
• 3 min read
Nick on restaurants
How restaurants have changed since 2000 – part 2
Nick Lander
Sunday 23 November 2025
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Ferran rediscovers the land of his youth, and these extraordinary ancient wine fermenters in the forest. I have a special...
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A slightly shorter version of this is published by the Financial Times. See also Empordà revisited for tasting notes on...
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A Spanish seaside wine region worth investigating. Above, all the bottles tasted, arranged by Ferran on the draughts board at...
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Ana Rivas writes, ' Nothing from my past indicated that I would pursue a career related to wine world. It...
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Salvator Vandewalle takes us to Rías Baixas with his story of old vines: ' I have been working as a...
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' As a graphic designer working with wineries for more than twenty years, I had the opportunity to learn about...
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Melanie Hickman's introduction to her writing-competition entry begins, 'I am a North American native living in Rioja Alavesa for the...
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It seems that, in some unexpected ways, our writing competition has touched every corner of the world. This entry is...
Wines of the week
Richard picks his ultimate desert-island wine.
From €21.50, 259 Swedish kronor, CA$36.75, 205.39 Danish kroner, 29.80 Swiss francs, 3,305 Serbian...
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Olly Styles writes, 'Well the old vines thing was pretty irresistible. I was at Decanter for six years from 2003–2009...
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Spain's northerly wine region is now revelling in its ability to make delicate red expressions of a variety that used...
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A version of this article is publshed by the Financial Times. See also White rioja's evolution. Vines on the Contino...
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One more white wine style to celebrate. One that varies quite considerably.
I've fallen in love. For years white rioja...
Wines of the week
An unusual old favourite revisited. Look out for Jancis’s article on white rioja next week for a range of other...
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Ferran falls for the wild and woolly wines of an exciting new group of Spanish wine producers.
A formal definition...
Wines of the week
A tip-top, food-friendly Atlantic white from a blue house, which, we found out on the afternoon of publishing this, has...
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