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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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See related thread in Members' forum Below are notes on one of the world’s great undiscovered treasures, described in more...
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Two sizeable verticals, one of St-Julien second-growth Ch Léoville Poyferré and one of its sister property Ch Le Crock in...
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On 4 Sep – by coincidence, the first day of their harvest in the Douro – Australian-trained Taylor Fladgate Partnership...
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See related thread in Members' forum In this collection of 77 wines offered this autumn by Sainsbury’s, one of Britain’s...
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In my recent coverage of Alsace’s 2007s, both the tasting notes and the overview, I promised I’d publish tasting notes...
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Chile is ‘All Ways Surprising’ according to the slightly clunky marketeers of ProChile, the government body promoting Chilean exports. Their...
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I reckoned that the least Richard Hemming deserves after sending us so many entertaining reports from his experiences as a...
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German wine specialist Michael Schmidt very kindly offered to share with us his tasting notes taken at the official launch...
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Here’s a collection of tasting notes on 26 very different current champagnes. The growers’ champagnes are by and large the...
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These 56 Pessac-Léognan reds were tasted blind in London for Decanter magazine, which will be publishing the results of the...
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Here are notes on about 80 South African white wines tasted blind last May, in groups by vine variety, for...
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