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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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We finish our week devoted to Mature Bordeaux with an account of some of the most famous red bordeaux of...
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The following notes were taken at a super-luxurious comparative tasting hosted by Christie's in London back in November 2005. I'm...
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Our second offer in this Older Bordeaux Week focuses on one of the most distinctive and traditional properties on the...
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Last week I had the enormous treat of tasting dozens of top quality wines, many of them very mature, from...
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See below for 117 tasting notes, many of them enthusiastic, on these first showings of these two superior vintages. The...
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Faced with an array of more than 500 Austrian wines at a tasting in London earlier this month, I found...
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UK specialist organic wine importer Vintage Roots has clearly been checking their biodynamic calendar because I did this tasting on...
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Although Iris Ellmann usually holds an annual tasting for press and private customers in London at the start of each...
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I tasted the following 70+ wines in a freezing cold Majestic wine warehouse in London recently. They are all new...
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On the evening of the day that Jancis tasted Sassicaia back to 1975, West London wine merchant Roberson organised another...
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I was lucky enough to taste the dozen best vintages of Sassicaia recently, as decided by technical director, and stepson...
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In a laudable example of bandwagons being pulled by hobby horses, wine aficionados have been showing palpable concern for the...
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Here are my stream-of-consciousness notes from a tasting of local wines that are exported to the UK from this small...
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It is all too rarely that we see evidence in the UK of what goes on in vineyards and cellars...
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