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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 our guide to Bordeaux 2009 coverage. There certainly was no shortage of ambition in Pauillac in 2009 with lots...
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See our guide to Bordeaux 2009 coverage. It could be argued that St-Julien is becoming rather less of a dependable...
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See our guide to Bordeaux 2009 coverage. In some ways there were disappointments here in that too many of these...
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See our guide to Bordeaux 2009 coverage. In this selection are some of the wines most likely to be the...
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See our guide to Bordeaux 2009 coverage. I tasted quite widely in this appellation, looking for the freshness that defines...
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I know that at the moment many wine lovers will be seeking news of Châteaux in south-west France. That will...
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I had ridiculously little time in China recently, and was able to taste Chinese wine for only the tiniest proportion...
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A 50-strong snippet of The Wine Society's range follows, representing mostly the classics, although there are a few curios too...
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The highlight of the Pacific North West tasting in London earlier this year was a clutch of very fine Cabernet...
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A bevy of bevies below, as selected from this year's Specialist Importers Trade Tasting, a union of like-minded wine traders...
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It's always interesting to monitor the latest champagne vintages and I've had a couple of chances recently: one tasting a...
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Rosé is fast becoming a colour of choice no matter the month, apparently defying its traditional summertime association, but it...
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UK wine merchants Berry Bros showed off the fruits of its sniffing around Italy recently in London. We were ushered...
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The Consorzio of Brunello di Montalcino seems very pleased with the 2005 vintage of its most important wine: it bestowed...
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Last week I had the great pleasure of 'looking at' nearly 50 of the more significant red bordeaux from the...
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The 2007 vintage in Montepulciano, less clement than for Chianti Classico in general, showed wines that seemed to struggle with...
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