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Meinklang, Prosa Rosé Frizzante 2024 Österreich
A magical sparkling wine from Austria, from €9, £15.50, $16.95. It is, some say, the time when magic is strongest … the summer solstice, when the fairy folk come and...
Tamlyn Currin
• 1 min read
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Wine discoveries – May 2026
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...
Team JR
• 2 min read
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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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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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