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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 Rhône is currently such a great source of good quality, interesting wine – some of it at extremely good...
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Coming very soon - lots more tasting notes on great value Rhônes.
This collection of Latours was served to those...
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If mediocrity is one of wine's most cardinal sins, then Alain Brumont of Chx Montus and Bouscassé in deepest south...
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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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As you may have gathered from this report and associated articles, despite the bushfires, I managed to taste some very...
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'Wine can be made everywhere, but great wine can only be made in select places', started Bruno Besa of Astrum...
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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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