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Rioja at 100 – singular wines
A focus on single-village, single-vineyard and single-variety Rioja. Above, Juan Carlos Sancha and his mule working the Cerro la Isa vineyard – source of Ferran’s standout white wine of the...
Ferran Centelles
Monday 9 March 2026
• 2 min read
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Santorini's treasures – the wines
Julia Harding MW
Wednesday 4 March 2026
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Concluding our theme of Germanic wines this week, these are the 86 tasting notes I took at last month's Great...
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Our mainly Germanic week continues. To judge from the nearly 2,000 posts on the Which German wine have you drunk...
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For more articles and tasting notes see our guide to Germany 2013. We now have a chance to see what...
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For more articles and tasting notes see our guide to Germany 2013. Here is Michael's first report on the 2013s...
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One of the most obvious recent developments in meteorology has been that weather has become more extreme. There are more...
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The recent MW Symposium in Florence was not all talk. There were two excellent tastings, both organised superbly by my...
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The most elusive skill required for tasting en primeur Bordeaux is an understanding of how the wines will evolve. This...
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I've had great fun tasting a range of mainly 2013 Beaujolais from a group of small estates known as Terroirs...
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Here are notes on current releases of the latest project of Robert (Bertie) Eden in the Languedoc. He has always...
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This fabulous style of sherry is not as widely known as, say, fino or oloroso, and generally produced in smallish...
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We are publishing this comparative tasting article now to coincide with a Sainsbury's promotion that starts today and runs until...
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This collection of rosés comes mainly from two tastings last month in London, one blind and predominantly French, organised by...
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As usual, Michael Chapoutier presented his latest vintage of his Sélections Parcellaires in London, earlier than anyone else was showing...
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Jancis writes 'They would have you believe some godforsaken grapes that, in hundreds and hundreds of years of viticulture, wine...
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Purple Pager Thomas De Waen has been suggesting for some time that we get together to taste beaujolais with some...
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George Sandeman, the figurehead of the Sandeman port house, showed off 20 vintages of Sandeman port in London last month...
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