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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
• 9 min read
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Rioja at 100 – revisiting Contino
Ferran Centelles
Monday 16 March 2026
• 2 min read
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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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See here for more on the Marqués de Riscal. Marqués de Riscal Verdejo 2006 Rueda 16.5 Drink 2007-08 85% Verdejo...
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Here are my tasting notes on a fascinating blind tasting of 149 top 2001s. See also my overview of the...
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See inside information for the background to these wines from Allen Shoup and a stable of famous vintners from well...
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The weather in 2001 in the northern Rhône was rather like the wines – a mixed bag. February and March...
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Below are tasting notes, as I took them when tasting blind (including some guesses as to origin) more than 40...
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Below are tasting notes on more than 50 Argentine Malbecs which sell for more than £10/$20 a bottle. Julia’s conclusions...
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Romania has about 180,000 hectares (c 445,000 acres) under vine, down from a pre-war peak of 240,000 but only about...
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This is an extremely partial look at some of the best wines being made in New York State which I...
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The Wine Society plundered its famously useful Stevenage cellars (see our recently updated wine storage survey ) to provide 250...
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Michelin-starrred chef Roger Jones of The Harrow, Little Bedwyn somehow managed to find time to taste and produce the following...
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Here are more than 230 tasting notes on wines made all over the south of France. I have divided them...
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The tasting below reminded me just how good top Australian Chardonnays are, especially the top Western Australian ones. Vintages ranged...
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Below are my notes taken at an extraordinary two-day tasting of the Wine Society’s stocks of the grander wines of...
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All these wines made from Pinot Noir grown in Germany were tasted at the VDP Grosses Gewächs preview at the...
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The following are notes taken at a tasting in London of Italian wines sold by Marco De Grazia in the...
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Berry Bros & Rudd showed a range of bordeaux as they have late summer for the last few years. I...
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