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Napa's 2023 Cabernets
A banner vintage. Above, Dalla Valle Vineyards in Oakville produced two of Sam’s highlights of this vintage (image courtesy of Dalla Valle). In mid April, I spent two days in...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
• 3 min read
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The heights of the southern Rhône
A taster of the quality potential in wines grown in the southern Rhône’s ‘north-west corridor’. Above, one of Domaine La Réméjeanne’s biodiverse vineyards (© Dom La Réméjeanne). This selection of...
Jancis Robinson
• 2 min read
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The Vinifilles describe themselves as ‘a battalion of women, thumbing their noses in the face of adversity!’
And yes, there...
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I dutifully toured the tables when UK supermarket Sainsbury's recently showed dozens and dozens of the wines the team are...
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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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