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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
Proof that Rioja remains a terrific source of mature wines at excellent prices. Above, one of the vineyards of El Pacto, who produced a great-value white that particularly impressed Ferran...
Ferran Centelles
Wednesday 11 March 2026
• 3 min read
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The site is littered with references to the Equipo Navazos and Jesús Barquín, as you will find if you put...
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I felt pretty depressed after tasting nearly 80 of the wines of which, presumably, the UK supermarket Sainsbury's is proudest...
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Below are notes I took at the home of Hiro Kusuda in New Zealand in February 2009. See my profile...
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Richard Hemming recently tasted these offerings from Virgin Wines, now a subsidiary of Direct Wines, owned by the Laithwaite family...
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