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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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Prices positively tumbling out now, folks. See this complete Bordeaux 2008 guide to our 556 tasting notes and major articles...
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I was very impressed by some of the value offered in a recent presentation in London of Argentine wines imported...
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Mel Jones writes: As the crunch continues to grind away, the UK's biggest supermarket Tesco, with its buying power, should...
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