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Napa Sauvignon Blanc, 2024 and 2025
Rich takes on this popular white-wine variety. Above, Rudd’s Mt Veeder Estate (© Rudd). For the last three years I have flown from Oregon to California to review Napa Valley...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
• 2 min read
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Below are my tasting notes for 35 sweet whites, mainly Sauternes-Barsac. We have called them Barsac only if they use...
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This collection of 31 dry white bordeaux is the most consistently successful in all of Bordeaux in 2006. The snazziest...
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Here are my, and sometimes Julia’s, notes on well over 100 Saint-Émilions and satellites as well as those wines which...
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Below are my and Julia's tasting notes for the wines of the Pomerol, Lalande-de-Pomerol, Fronsac and Canon-Fronsac. There was probably...
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Below are my tasting notes for the wines of Pessac-Léognan and Graves. Background comments appear in italics. As usual, the...
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Below are my - and occasionally Julia’s marked (JH) – tasting notes for the wines of Saint-Estèphe, Haut-Médoc and Médoc...
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Below are my - and occasionally Julia’s marked (JH) – tasting notes for the wines of Saint-Estèphe, Haut-Médoc and Médoc...
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Below are my tasting notes for the wines of Pauillac. Note the very strict selection for the grands vins with...
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Below are my tasting notes for the wines of Saint-Julien. A really lovely UGC flight – arguably even more consistent...
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Below are my tasting notes for the wines of Margaux, plus the Moulis and Listrac appellations which are also in...
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Here, in the order served, are my tasting notes on all the wines included in the fascinating tasting of Portuguese...
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This was the second of two great tastings I attended as part of the Palais Coburg fine wine weekend last...
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Yesterday in Spain invades St James’s I reported on the remarkable fact that both J&B and Berry Bros were singing...
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Yesterday in Spain invades St James’s I reported on the remarkable fact that both J&B and Berry Bros were singing...
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Some more tasting notes on the toothsome 2005 vintage, in the Southern Rhône this time. See also the second tranche...
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