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Oregon enters its bubble era
The fine sparkling-wine producers of Oregon are getting organised. Above, Lytle-Barnett’s Windfall vineyard in the Eola-Amity Hills, Oregon (credit: Lester Tsai). Given the state’s facility with Pinot Noir and Chardonnay...
Alder Yarrow
Friday 5 December 2025
• 11 min read
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Sparkling wines for the 2025 festive season
Top tips for those seeking a bit of sparkle for the holidays this Christmas and New Year. From £14 to £1,438 a bottle. A version of this article is published...
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 22 November 2025
• 2 min read
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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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See Cava becomes geographically specific. Here’s a tasting that augurs well for Spain’s troubled but most famous sparkling wine. Above...
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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.
From €10.80, £10.95, CA$19, 2,420 Japanese yen, 155 Brazilian reais
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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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A crazy, semi-sparkling, off-dry orange wine from the mountains of Greece confounds and delights.
€6.60, $13.99, 139 Swedish kronor, 115...
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Ferran untangles the turbulent recent history of Catalan sparkling wine. His tasting notes on wines from this new group of...
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Ferran tastes the sparkling wines of this new Catalan group. See also Introducing Corpinnat – a complex tale. Recaredo's cellar...
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More than 20 recommended relative bargains of a sparkling nature. A version of this article is published by the Financial...
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