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Sherry, port and Madeira in profusion. This is surely the time of year when you can allow yourself to take the plunge into these very special wines. I tasted quite...
Jancis Robinson
Friday 12 December 2025
• 3 min read
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Rhône 2024 – other southern whites, rosés and VDNs
Gigondas Blanc lives up to its new appellation in 2024. Above, Clairette at Château de St-Cosme, one of the vintage’s standout producers. For more on the Rhône 2024 vintage, see...
Alistair Cooper MW
Wednesday 10 December 2025
• 11 min read
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Rhône 2024 – other southern reds
Alistair Cooper MW
Wednesday 10 December 2025
• 12 min read
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See wine news from 24 September for a full account of this extraordinary tasting in Paris on 12 September 2005...
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Last October a purple pager wrote asking about 1997 red bordeaux about which I wrote a rather lukewarm answer. In...
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The great thing about the port business at the moment, or rather the Port Wine Trade as its traditional practitioners...
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You already know Staglin Family Vineyard and winery in the Napa Valley. It was the super-glitzy one where the most...
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The Beaune house of Louis Latour bought Simonnet-Febvre of Chalis in jun 03 so had the chance to put only...
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Charlotte Blofeld of London writes: Happy summer holidays. We've just got back from a hot rose-soaked week in Sicily. Could...
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As outlined in Barossa Valley – growers turn winemakers in wine news, the Barossa is one of Australia’s most distinctive...
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For an overview of the 2004 vintage in Germany, see fine wine news. See also my suggestions for what to...
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Just like Spain, Portugal is in the grip of a table wine revolution. But unlike Spain it has a vast...
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We all know that the far south of France is a great source of hand-made, digestible, keenly-priced red wines, but...
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This tasting of 1999 North Rhône wines was much, much better than the 1998 Rhône tasting notes which I reported...
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Here are my tasting notes on about 80 rosés tasted in the last few weeks – mainly 2004s with a...
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The background to this completely blind tasting of Australia v Some of the Best of the Rest and what I...
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Roy Hersh of Seattle, great wine lover and best-known as a port expert has very kindly supplied these great tasting...
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See my overview of the 2003 vintage and the vintage port market and Roy Hersh of Seattle's excellent report at...
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