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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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The following is a collection of tasting notes taken at the Masters of Wine Symposium in Bordeaux last month (see...
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A couple of months ago in Singapore, I was treated to one of those lazy lunches that I seem to...
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One year on... the tasting notes on half a century of Bollinger RD! Later that same day – Now with...
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I really am very spoilt indeed. Not only does my work necessarily expose me to a constant succession of good...
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I was so thrilled by the enthusiastic response to France's best kept secret about the great wines to be found...
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Last week I published tasting notes from a blind tasting of New World white wines that had been presented as...
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We hope that even if you have never bought German wine, you will consider experimenting with the 2009s. Compared with...
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Italian wine, with its confusing nomenclature and elastic regulations, is the very model of a modern major genre of wine...
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Tesco are by far the dominant force in UK wine retail, and very much plan on continuing to be so...
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Following on from Jancis’ recent Pale, dry sherry – which is best? come the notes below from a recent gathering...
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In 1989 first growths, more or less, Jancis tasted a clutch of top 1989s as they were in 2002. When...
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