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Sherry, port and Madeira in profusion. This is surely the time of year when you can allow yourself to take the plunge into these very special wines. I tasted quite...
Jancis Robinson
Friday 12 December 2025
• 3 min read
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Rhône 2024 – other southern whites, rosés and VDNs
Gigondas Blanc lives up to its new appellation in 2024. Above, Clairette at Château de St-Cosme, one of the vintage’s standout producers. For more on the Rhône 2024 vintage, see...
Alistair Cooper MW
Wednesday 10 December 2025
• 11 min read
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Rhône 2024 – other southern reds
Alistair Cooper MW
Wednesday 10 December 2025
• 12 min read
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A roller coaster ride might sum up my experience of tasting nearly a hundred Grüner Veltliners at the Austrian annual...
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In response to popular demand – well, James North of Sydney’s request in members’ forum – I have allowed last...
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The tasting notes below are a brief representative sample of the wide range of producers, varieties and styles that I...
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Pinot Noir is of course flavour of the year in the US. So much so that we don't see too...
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Continuing our Pinot Noir week is this collection of tasting notes on Pinot Noirs from Australia’s greatest concentration of Pinot...
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It was a pleasure to taste most of the 2007 Pinot Noirs made in Central Otago (over 60 from a...
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Pinot Noir Week continues. New Zealand was already showing signs of Pinotmania at the turn of the century and total...
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London wine merchant Roberson has a reputation for holding fine tasting events, as discussed on the forum here. Their latest...
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The notes below are a snapshot comparison of three UK importers as viewed through their Italian wines. The selection was...
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The following wines, all about to be sold in small lots by Bid for Wine, were tasted earlier this month...
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While Tamlyn Currin mined the recent London Australia Day tasting for bargains, I continued my Sauvignon Blanc mission, motivated partly...
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Here are my verbatim tasting notes taken on the spot at yesterday’s fascinating blind tasting New Zealanders take on Bordeaux...
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Below are my tasting notes from the three flights of white wines we tasted on the final morning of last...
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With snow still lying on the ground outside in London, a tasting of southern French rosés was seasonally anachronistic but...
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