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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
• 3 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
Julia Harding MW
Friday 13 March 2026
• 2 min read
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I love any chance to assess the real merits of non vintage champagnes without the distraction of all the imagery...
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I have already published notes on hundreds of 2004 Germans but here are some later releases from the two most...
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I have now had a chance to taste (from a half bottle) the just-released Ch d'Yquem 2001 and it certainly...
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The 2001 vintage has a fine reputation for Tuscan reds for the reasons outlined below. In a tasting organised in...
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I enjoyed a vertical of one of Australia’s most admired Verdelho table wines the other day. The variety was one...
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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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