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The greatest-ever champagne vintage?
A comparative tasting of champagne from the highly acclaimed 1996 vintage and the overshadowed 1995. And a daring way to remove a recalcitrant champagne cork. Was 1996 the greatest-ever champagne...
Andy Howard MW
Monday 15 December 2025
• 4 min read
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Rhône 2024 – other southern whites, rosés and VDNs
Alistair Cooper MW
Wednesday 10 December 2025
• 11 min read
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Day 4 of the Landmark Australia tutorial continued with winemaker Tom Carson’s selection of Pinot Noir. See these two short...
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Vintage reports are more interesting if they come with a story, and this one does. When members of the Rutherford...
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I recently had the chance to complete my acquaintance with 2007 white burgundies from the prolific Vincent Girardin of Meursault...
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A summery summary of wines from British importer and agent Stone, Vine & Sun follow below. The high percentage of...
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At the beginning of the year I had the pleasure of conducting a tasting of great 1990s kindly donated by...
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Day 4 of the Landmark Tutorial started with an excellent tasting of Chardonnays, presented by the very personable Michael Hill...
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At the end of this year's International Pinot Noir Celebration in Oregon, on which I’ll be publishing detailed tasting notes...
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See also Richard's views on why English wine is not Champagne. The notes below were taken at the awards ceremony...
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I described in The Letts look and give back the background to this extraordinary vertical tasting of every vintage made...
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This session, the last on day 3 of the Landmark Australia tutorial, was led by Max Allen, British-born but Melbourne-dwelling...
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We all know now that Argentina can produce some very fine wine, most of it red. I was certainly enthused...
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We’ve been in Oregon for hardly 24 hours at the time of writing and already I’ve had the chance to...
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These tasting notes on 110 assorted white burgundies have been assembled from various tastings in the UK of wines at...
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Choosing 12 wines to represent a fine-wine expression of Cabernet Sauvignon (including Cabernet-dominated blends) in Australia was a very tall...
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Morphologically chastened by the editorial department for Richard goes to Croatia, I hereby present a pun-free account of the tastings...
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Here's a collection of tasting notes on 15 of the most celebrated Hermitages ever made, plus a few more northern...
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