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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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I have consistently been impressed by Chapoutier's very special, small-scale bottlings of wines produced from biodynamically farmed vines on their...
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Almost exactly 34 years ago my very first professional wine tasting took place in Canada House, overlooking the fountains of...
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The Occitan word for stranger is estranhièr – a hauntingly beautiful word. And the broad swathe of Mediterranean coastline from...
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Here's another small tranche of tasting notes on 2009 bordeaux, published as a substantial portion of the Bordeaux wine trade...
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I'd been looking forward to this one. Majestic was my alma mater which started the intra-vinous dripfeed that ultimately led...
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[See here for another 170 tasting notes by Jancis and Julia on the German 2009 vintage.] Michael Schmidt presents the...
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Here's a selection of just over 60 wines available from the UK supermarket Waitrose, though I tried to taste mainly...
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Argentina is without doubt a source of increasing interest to wine lovers in search of wines with real personality and...
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Nick and I were invited to dinner by wine importer Alan Wong almost as soon as we arrived in Singapore...
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These madeiras were tasted either in the lodges of the Madeira Wine Company (Blandy's/Cossart Gordon/Leacock/Miles), D'Oliveiras or Barbeito on the...
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These pictures show just part of the archive of sales ledgers bequeathed to the Madeira Wine Company by Noel Cossart...
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The following tasting notes and observations on about 75 fine wines made at this year's presentation of Sicilian wines en...
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The London fine-wine merchant armit (lower case letters being their idea) recently held an Italian tasting which featured some of...
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Here are the nearly 70 tasting notes I took at this year's English Wine Producers tasting on St George's Day...
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The final stage on my semi-circular tour of the Peloponnese was the city of Patras in the Achaia prefecture, right...
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See Greeks not resting on their laurels for my introduction to this trip around the Peloponnese and Welcome to Greek...
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