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Northern California Zinfandel
Picking out value and genuine interest in California wine. More on Saturday. Above, an old Zinfandel vine at Dry Creek Vineyard, whose prices are especially reasonable and its practices admirably...
Jancis Robinson
Thursday 5 March 2026
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Santorini's treasures – the wines
Julia Harding MW
Wednesday 4 March 2026
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We’re planning a big collection of Languedoc wine reviews but Gérard Bertrand deserves an article of his own. His rise...
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Jancis writes By chance I have recently been sent wines from several Austrian producers new to me (and I include...
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Pink wine has come a long way in the last few years. No...
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Christmas is not my favourite time of year. I cannot blame it on some childhood trauma – unless it is...
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‘Blending masks terroir’. This statement has remained strongly in my mind since I first read it in Educvin: Votre Talent...
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‘Our 2013s are very linear, not exuberant. There is nothing extra, not a spare ounce of flesh, unlike, say, the...
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The Saar supremo Egon Müller of Scharzhofberg fame, winner of the 2015 Winemakers' Winemaker Award, and his business partners Michael...
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There are many pretenders to the Montalcino wine throne but...
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Florence and Daniel Cathiard have now been in charge of the estimable Pessac-Léognan property Ch Smith Haut Lafitte for 25...
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Maureen Downey of Chai Consulting, best-known for her work fighting counterfeit wines, provides this survey of 55 current Napa Valley...
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Cakebread have been making Chardonnay in the Napa Valley for 42 years, Bruce Cakebread (pictured) told us while introducing a...
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3 May I have just added reviews of three wines from Alonso del Yerro which is clearly managing to harness...
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The wine that benefits the least from the annual Tuscany en primeur tastings is Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. Compared with...
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One of the most entertaining segments of this year’s Napa Valley Wine Writers' Symposium (along with How well do Napa...
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As Michael wrote here yesterday, German wine drinkers and producers have become increasingly fond of grape varieties that are members...
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Each year, at the same time as Brunello di Montalcino is released onto the market after a formidable four years...
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