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Languedoc whites – looking to the future
Part one of a two-part exploration of change in the vineyards of southern France. Not for the first time, I’ve come away from the Languedoc convinced that it’s the whites...
Tamlyn Currin
Tuesday 16 December 2025
• 5 min read
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The greatest-ever champagne vintage?
A comparative tasting of champagne from the highly acclaimed 1996 vintage and the overshadowed 1995. And a daring way to remove a recalcitrant champagne cork. Was 1996 the greatest-ever champagne...
Andy Howard MW
Monday 15 December 2025
• 4 min read
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These 58 important 2000 red bordeaux were tasted in London in nov 04 and looked, generally, pretty gorgeous – although...
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Here’s an interesting little distraction, a vertical of Chardonnays from one of Italy’s most admired newer producers and the one...
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I tasted the following 50+ Argentine Malbecs and blends dominated by Malbec recently in London. I did not taste them...
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This range of Peter Sisseck's wines was tasted last November in London with his nephew Hans Vinding Diers, son of...
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See also wines made by producers A-M, and notes on two of the better eastern German producers at the very...
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Here and in Dry Germans N-Z is a more detailed look at Germany’s exceptional 2003s, concentrating on the dry wines...
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There may be people to whom a tasting of 15 different Montrachets is nothing special, but I have yet to...
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The hot, dry summer of 2003 has produced some very exciting wines in the Rhône Valley if these offerings from...
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The first château-sanctioned vertical of Mouton I can remember in London was organised recently by wine merchants Bibendum. Herv é...
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Despite their late beginnings, both in the vineyard and cellar, Bordeaux’s 2002s are all, except for a handful of grand...
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Berlin-based wine writer Stuart Pigott persuaded Delia Viader to open up a vertical of her Napa Valley red when he...
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See Champagne shootout – 95 v 96 for an account of the inspiration for and organisation of this blind tasting...
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These tasting notes should be read in conjunction with my description of the second big Austrian wine challenge in wine...
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See wine news 16 oct for an account of the extraordinary tasting which gave rise to these tasting notes on...
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The following are notes on some fine, current reds from Coonawarra, then some assorted reds from elsewhere, and brief notes...
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