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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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Rhône 2024 – other southern whites, rosés and VDNs
Alistair Cooper MW
Wednesday 10 December 2025
• 11 min read
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These notes were taken in March 2008 with Louis-Michel Liger-Belair at his UK importers Justerini & Brooks. For some background...
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Please read these tasting notes in conjunction with Bordeaux 2004 at four – Part 2. A couple of weeks ago...
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You may remember how I marvelled at Screaming Eagle’s vineyard manager Annie Favia in How to make a wine’s reputation...
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We seem to be discussing white burgundy with some frequency on the forum at the moment, so I thought it...
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The following tasting notes were taken last January at one of the most thoroughly enjoyable wine dinners I have ever...
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See this article in the Financial Times, including an interview with Oddbins' new owner on his strategy and intentions for...
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I recently tasted this collection of 30 distinctive American wines currently on offer in the UK (that last phrase alone...
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It has taken some time for me to publish the next lot of tasting notes from one of the little...
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Mel Jones writes: To celebrate the 10 th anniversary of its premium range of own-label products, Britain’s biggest retailer recently...
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I strongly urge you to take advantage of the revolution in white winemaking in Bordeaux. I know I have said...
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It almost seems as though British wine writers are turning en masse into winemakers. For the record, I have zero...
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In this series of tasting notes on the range of wines currently offered by significant British retailers, we have only...
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If ever we needed proof that, rain willing, there are still myriad suitable vineyard sites to discover in the vast...
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Written by Lindsay Groves. See also Wines on Lebanon – more stable than the politics. CHÂTEAU MUSAR Ch Musar, Cuvée...
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See below for my tasting notes on about 135 wines from Waitrose, Britain’s supermarket with the best reputation for fine...
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Marks & Spencer has been one of Britain’s totemic retailers, a relatively upmarket operation that for at least a generation...
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