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The age of rosé
It can pay to age your rosé , Julian Leidy reports from Elizabeth Gabay MW’s Fine Rosé Day conference. We’re living in an age of rosé. A 2023 study by...
Julian Leidy
Tuesday 17 March 2026
• 2 min read
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The Burgundian touch in England's Crouch Valley
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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The 1999 vintage produced some exceptional Oregon Pinots which Americans should try to track down before they disappear from the...
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Tertre Roteboeuf's an interesting property (and not just because everyone wants to put a circumflex on the O and call...
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These wines, straight from the Shafers' own cellars, were tased in Miami in early March 2003. They were served, in...
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The following notes were taken at a vertical tasting chez my fellow wine writer and Master of Wine Clive Coates...
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Dr Manfred Prüm, current guardian of the Prüm family vineyard holdings in Wehlen just downriver of Bernkastel in the Mosel...
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These regular 1997 Brunellos were tasted in London in March 2002. They were noticeably riper than the 1998s (see my...
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These notes were taken at a fascinating vertical of bottles brought directly from the château's own (recently remodelled) cellars by...
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Slovenia is like an eastern extension of Friuli in north east Italy or, as the Slovenians might put it, Friuli...
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Please read my scores out of 20 and likely drinking dates with extreme caution. In most cases they are based...
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These have been sorted alphabetically by country (or region in the case of Alsace) and are listed upwards in retail...
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In an Australian wine scene that increasingly seems dominated either by soulless, foreign-owned big companies or cultish fly-by-nights, the Henschkes...
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See my take on this in wine news. I tasted 98 of the 250 wines glorified with tre-bicchiere/three-glass status in...
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See wine news for an overview of the current state of play of New Zealand's dominant red wine grape. These...
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See inside information for a précis of a quite amazing tasting of old madeiras in Miami on 28 February, 2003...
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See also Dear, dear madeira wine news, Insider's madeira in inside information and my madeira tasting notes from March 2002...
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See also my tasting notes on the 1997s. The 1998 vintage in Montalcino is sandwiched between two much better years...
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