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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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According to this lengthening thread in the forum, purple pager George Biswas has had a most unfortunate experience of the...
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Ed Sbragia, Beringer Vineyards’ winemaker/wine master since 1984 and a 32-year-veteran of the Napa Valley winery, is stepping away from...
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After several years of too much oak, overt buttery character and weak acidity – downright flabby wines – California Chardonnay...
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These wines were tasted at the well organised Institute of Masters of Wine annual bordeaux tasting in London last month...
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Look out for Julia's notes in 2003 bordeaux in bottle to be published on Friday.
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