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The Burgundian touch in England's Crouch Valley
The sunny Crouch Valley in Essex lures Burgundians across the Channel to make wine in England. The Times , Britain’s newspaper of record, covered the news that two Burgundian winemakers...
Henry Jeffreys
Monday 16 March 2026
• 2 min read
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Rioja at 100 – revisiting Contino
Ferran Centelles
Monday 16 March 2026
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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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Here are notes on about 80 South African white wines tasted blind last May, in groups by vine variety, for...
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The buyer of Thresher, Britain’s only remaining large off licence chain, Jonathan Butt described the following wines as ‘a selection...
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I tasted these 64 Australian white wines blind last March when they had been submitted as candidates for British Airways...
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I had the opportunity to sip Randall Grahm's single-vineyard Pacific Rim Rieslings from Washington state while thumbing through his very...
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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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