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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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Rioja at 100 – wines below €25
Ferran Centelles
Wednesday 11 March 2026
• 3 min read
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See this Spain's losing battle in the fine wine field thread in our Members' forum for some interesting observations on...
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Claudia Pendred, a talented veteran of the Pol Roger Business School Alumni blind tasting competition, is currently stationed in Bucharest...
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