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Opus 1979-2000 tasting 19 May 2026
Tasting articles Opus One 1979–2000

A vertical tasting takes Jancis back to the groundbreaking beginning of this emblematic California red. Left to right in a private room in 67 Pall Mall, London: Margaret Rand, Michael...

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Tasting articles See also my companion articles on Portuguese reds and sweet and fortified wines. How often do you drink wines from...
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Tasting articles Don't we all love wine with a story to tell? And don't we love the prices of hand-crafted cru beaujolais...
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Tasting articles There can't be many regions where a single producer makes some of the most expensive, sought-after cuvées as well as...
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Tasting articles If I told you a story about Jancis, an alleyway, a hatchet, a hooded stranger, and garlic on a foul...
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Tasting articles See also The popular trencherman at Liberty. One of the British Isles' most distinctive independent wine importers celebrated their twentieth...
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Tasting articles See also Northern Greece part 2 – Gouménissa and Náoussa. Western Macedonia has the highest level of unemployment anywhere in...
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Tasting articles At the end of the last century the most innovative wine selection by far available to British wine drinkers was...
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Tasting articles Twenty quid doesn't usually go far in the world of fine wine, but one of the world's finest riojas can...
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Tasting articles Scottish wine merchant WoodWinters is extending its reach south of the border. Founded in 2005 by Douglas Wood, WoodWinters has...
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Tasting articles There is officially a total of 21,000 ha (51,890 acres) of vineyard in Croatia (there were 170,000 ha before phylloxera...
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Tasting articles In the invitation to this tasting, the first ever held in London by the Union des Gens de Métier, the...
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Tasting articles A bit like Andrea Franchetti (in frequency of coverage rather than character), Jeffrey Grosset probably deserves his own article tag...
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Tasting articles Nephew of the owner of Ch Pontet-Canet Basile Tesseron (pictured), his wife Berangère Carsberg, and their four sons (two of...
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Tasting articles FMV is the amalgamation of Fields wine merchants of Sloane Avenue in London and Morris & Verdin, originally established by...
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Tasting articles See also Vintage-dated gifts. In June I had another chance to taste the latest vintage-dated vins doux naturels from the...
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Tasting articles See Uruguay 10 years on, published yesterday, for my introduction to this trip. Three days was predictably too short a...
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