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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
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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
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