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Pinot Meunier – the Beyoncé of English vineyards
Once a bit player, Pinot Meunier is increasingly taking a starring role in English wines. Above, a Pinot Meunier vine at Langham in Dorset. For Adrian and Galia Pike at...
Henry Jeffreys
Thursday 8 January 2026
• 2 min read
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Wine discoveries – December 2025
Twenty-two reasons not to do Dry January. Among them, a Pinot Noir produced by Rippon, from their vineyards on the shores of Lake Wānaka in Central Otago, New Zealand, pictured...
Team JR
Monday 5 January 2026
• 4 min read
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We continue our preview of English Wine Week (19–27 June) with a look at multiple sparkling wines. Above, harvest at...
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Our second southern France wine round-up is mostly pink, with a handful or two of sparkling wines and just three...
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For British wine lovers charity begins at home – drink English wine this weekend and raise money for The Drinks...
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A mixed bag of sparkling wines including two(!) Bollinger RD 1976s, English fizz and an exceptional Spanish discovery. Above, the...
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In the final instalment of Project Loire (see this guide to the other four articles), we take a quick look...
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Zones, subzones, new categories, but probably not until 2022. We'll be publishing Ferran's tasting notes on some of his favourite...
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A version of this article, an annual fixture, is published by the Financial Times. Matt Martin took this picture of...
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This is no time to desert the magic combination of wine and carbon dioxide. We present dozens of examples, and...
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A challenge for English sparkling wine reprised.
Five years ago I took part in a blind comparison of six English...
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The latest entry to our sustainability heroes writing competition comes from a Russian sommelier in Bordeaux, who takes us south...
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Confined to Singapore by pandemic restrictions (and, therefore, unable to undertake his usual autumn tour of the Rhône), is Richard...
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Mauzac sparkles in the hills of Limoux.
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Tam introduces us to tasting notes on over 100 fashionable pink wines, and also provides many of them, notably those...
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