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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
• 2 min read
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Santorini's treasures – the wines
Julia Harding MW
Wednesday 4 March 2026
• 2 min read
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See also Bordeaux 2011 at Southwold – the whites. As I explained yesterday in my introduction to Bordeaux 2011 at...
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This week will be devoted to Bordeaux. Don’t all groan. There are some truly marvellous examples of this unique, and...
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Yesterday we published a collection of tasting notes on 184 South African reds and the day before an account of...
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Today we publish my reviews of 182 Cape red wines. Most of them were tasted while I was in South...
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Over the rest of the week I will be publishing reviews of the hundreds of other wines I tasted in...
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Because I am Catalan, Cava is a wine I am very accustomed to drinking; it is an indispensable companion to...
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In Mining Italy’s riches last June, an appreciation of some of Italy’s less mainstream wines, I drew attention to the...
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See also my overview of Swiss wine .In November I spent a weekend in Switzerland with fellow wine communicators, as...
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The sheer class of Austrian wines continues to amaze me. These wines are not cheap but they maintain a dazzling...
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Two years after the Franciacorta Consorzio opened a London office (see Walter Speller's Franciacorta sets its sights on the UK)...
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See Walter's enthusiastic report on 159 Brunello di Montalcino 2010s. The photographs here and in the earlier report are his...
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The beginning of the new year in Italy transforms the sleepy, wintry hills of Tuscany into a hotbed of activity...
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27 Jan This article is now...
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