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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 details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. The following 40-odd current Chianti Classicos, mostly Riservas...
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With the exception of the historic sweet wine Commandaria, Cyprus has not generally had a reputation for fine wines, partly...
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Opus One, the ambitious Napa Valley Bordeaux blend project co-owned by the Rothschilds of Mouton and Constellation (since the giant...
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This was the fabulous tasting I was lucky enough to moderate at the Palais Coburg in Vienna earlier this year...
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See In praise of the Yarra Valley for more background to this Yarra Valley producer. The range of vintages in...
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Blaufränkisch and (Blauer) Zweigelt are not the only red varieties in Austria but they are the most significant in terms...
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Here are tasting notes on a wonderful dinner held late last year in the English countryside with most wines provided...
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My notes on the German 2006s I have tasted so far are arranged alphabetically below by the producer’s (sur)name, ignoring...
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The Atlantic can represent a huge gulf as we know, particularly in terms of wine distribution. The wines of Jorge...
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Southern Styria, or Südsteiermark, is the southernmost wine region of Austria and borders on Slovenia. (See Austria invades Slovenia for...
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The following wines were tasted under the auspices of The World of Fine Wine as described as The tasting that...
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The following red bordeaux from the 1995, 1996 and 1998 vintages were tasted blind recently (but blind only within vintage)...
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Although I have not yet been to Brazil, I did taste a small selection of wines earlier this year in...
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Penfolds recently launched the latest available vintages of what they call their Luxury and Icon wines. Tasting conditions were hardly...
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Below are tasting notes on almost 100 champagnes tasted recently. They are mainly vintage-dated wines because I think these are...
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I mentioned this vertical tasting of Malbecs from one of Mendoza’s senior producers in Even Malbecs want to be Pinot...
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