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2024 vintage ports, 80 Year Olds and many more
An excellent year for vintage port. No wonder every port house is releasing one or more such ports, making this the first general declaration in seven years. Above, the seven...
Julia Harding MW
• 14 min read
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Waitrose spring 2026 recommendations
Great buys available in the UK and farther afield – including some naturally lower-alcohol wines. Above, left to right: Reon Richter, Leana Coetzee, Mari Branders, Juandre Bruwer – the core...
Andy Howard MW
• 3 min read
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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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Never let it be said that I ignore the wishes of purple pagers. Three months ago Mark Prust of Wales...
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A British captain of industry and his wife find themselves with a decided superfluity of 2000 red bordeaux and are...
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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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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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