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Reasons to drink more Riesling; best buys; and far-flung finds – highlights from a month of tastings. Above, Mount Ararat in Armenia overlooking the Yacoubian-Hobbs vineyards (© Yacoubian-Hobbs). It was...
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What Julia does when she has (almost) finished work.
The five months since my last Portuguese collections have passed in...
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Kicking off a new monthly column, Ben introduces us to the dark arts of wine and cheese pairing. Above, Langres...
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A look back at 30 years of House of Arras, and the cool-climate isle’s booming bubbly industry today. House of...
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A wine competition that actually matters.
Paarlberg (‘pearl mountain’) is behind us, iridescent in the cool morning light where the...
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Three 20-point wines are among these 29 exciting finds. Also included, the 2022 Ridge Monte Bello, from the vineyard pictured...
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A style that rarely disappoints. Andy writes Over 50 champagne houses were represented at The Definitive Champagne Tasting, a welcome...
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Highlights from the Sekt show, VinVin and the Biodynamic Wine Fair in Rheinhessen’s central city. In the image above we...
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Tam goes on a wine-and-food-pairing spree for English Wine Week. While reviewing dozens of English wines, now exported around the...
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Another set of outstanding new releases from the Kellers in Germany’s Rheinhessen. Also, news of crazy high-density planting, pictured above...
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New releases and old vintages make for a particularly rich array of wine reviews this month. Above, champagne producers Mathilde...
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Can you take your own wine? What's the point of the tasting ritual? A version of some of these 'rules'...
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6 February 2025 A surprising match made in heaven – republished, free for all, in our Throwback Thursday series. 8...
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A lightly sparkling, super-flexible pale red from the vineyard pictured above in the mountains of mainland Greece and available for...
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A lively Lambrusco for purposeful pleasure seekers, f rom €8.85, $13.95, £19.95
Alberto Paltrinieri (below) was one of the few...
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A sparkling wine for pizza, parmesan, prosciutto, salami and gnocco fritto, and a whole lot more if you choose carefully...
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Plus the Gérard Basset Foundation’s latest grantees, awarded as part of its mandate to fund educational and professional programmes focused...
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