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Languedoc whites – looking to the future
Part one of a two-part exploration of change in the vineyards of southern France. Not for the first time, I’ve come away from the Languedoc convinced that it’s the whites...
Tamlyn Currin
Tuesday 16 December 2025
• 5 min read
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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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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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This session on day 3 of the Landmark Tutorial week was led by Iain Riggs of Brokenwood, who highlighted the...
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Last Thursday evening I tasted this range of German wines from The Winery in Maida Vale, London, David Motion's store...
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I explained the background to the New Wave Spanish Wine Awards in Best of Spain's New Wave? And now, here...
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Here at last is our long-trailed collection of tasting notes on the vast twin wine regions of Languedoc and Roussillon...
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This very special session of the Landmark tutorial, held in the wonderfully light and airy tasting room at Barossa Valley...
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Les Forts de Latour is not the second wine of Ch Latour, but another wine entirely, produced from very different...
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The Austrians don't do things by halves. Unless you count sweet wines. Otherwise, as I discovered on a recent trip...
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See this complete guide to our hundreds of tasting notes. Mopping up some of the German 2008s that Jancis and...
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One resonant name we haven't covered recently in our surveys of UK retailers is Oddbins. This once-dominant chain of wine...
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We have just added a further 45 tasting notes to the original 115, so can now offer descriptions of 160...
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This session of the Landmark Tutorial week was led by Stephen Pannell, who grew up in the wine industry as...
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Do not ignore fine California Cabernet from the 1960s and 1970s! By a strange coincidence, the evening of the day...
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Here are my notes on 34 of the wines presented by the UK's second-biggest supermarket Asda (owned by Walmart of...
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Bin 389, first produced by Max Schubert in 1960, has been variously described as ‘baby Grange’ or the more offensive...
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See this overview of this very useful look at 53 of the most significant 1999 red bordeaux on their tenth...
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