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Amphora Wine Day 2025 – the rise and rise of clay
Celebrating wine from clay in southern Portugal. 1,900 wine lovers can’t be wrong. In November last year they thronged to the eighth edition of Amphora Wine Day, off the beaten...
Julia Harding MW
Friday 13 March 2026
• 2 min read
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Tasting Great Southern
124 wines reviewed, revealing assorted treasures buried in the far south-western corner of Australia. See also Visiting Great Southern. The remoteness of the Great Southern region, four hours south of...
Richard Hemming MW
Thursday 12 March 2026
• 3 min read
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Rioja at 100 – wines below €25
Ferran Centelles
Wednesday 11 March 2026
• 3 min read
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Below is a collection of recent tasting notes on several dozen red bordeaux from vintage 2007 back to 1975, the...
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See The tale of the other Joly for the background to the wines described below. Dudley & de Fleury, who...
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I've been lucky enough to be invited to some very good dinners recently. This one, focused on some exceptionally mature...
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Here is the second of our German tasting articles, to get those planning to attend Prowein in Düsseldorf this weekend...
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In the week leading up to the increasingly important Prowein wine fair in Düsseldorf, we'll be publishing two collections of...
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I recently tasted these 17 wines from mail-order merchant Tilley's Wines as a result of a rather unusual set of...
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We all know what an urban myth is. Is there such a thing as a rural myth? If so, then...
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See my overview of the current situation in Amarone – an unstoppable, if variable, force? Contrary to many other anteprima...
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