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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
• 3 min read
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The Burgundian touch in England's Crouch Valley
Henry Jeffreys
Monday 16 March 2026
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Rioja at 100 – revisiting Contino
Ferran Centelles
Monday 16 March 2026
• 2 min read
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The 1986 Bordeaux vintage was initially received enthusiastically. In Médoc and Graves in particular it was hailed as a 'classic'...
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We all know the 1997 red bordeaux were so overpriced that we didn't want to buy them. But this is...
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This has been an extraordinary vintage for Germany – see my story in wine news for an extended overview. Such...
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See also purple prose (29 April 2003). Janna Gur, the editor of Israel's food and wine magazine Al Hashulhan, sent...
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I firmly believe that south west Australia is one of the world's relatively few places where Cabernet Sauvignon can make...
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I tasted all but one these wines in one concentrated session chez my fellow Master of Wine Clive Coates and...
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An overview by Bipin Desai Professor Bipin Desai writes: A few thoughts on the conclusions to draw from the 82...
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1982 versus the rest 82 vs. 59 collectors journalists combined Haut Brion * 1982 1982 1982 Lafite 1959 1959 1959...
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Preference for the 1982 vintages % collectors % journalists % combined served who preferred who preferred who preferred Château blind...
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Preferred vintages vintages vintage vintage vintage served collectors journalists combined Château blind preferred preferred preferred Ausone 82,83,90,98 1983 tie 90,98...
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The Los Angeles collector and scientist Bipin Desai ( www.bipin.com ) organised an extraordinary series of tastings at the end...
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The great mass producers of the Languedoc plains may be in trouble (see wine news on this earlier in the...
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As anyone who keeps up with goings-on in Italy via wine news here knows, the Maremma is currently a hotbed...
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Chile is (not before time) producing some wine of interest to serious, value-conscious wine-lovers nowadays (see my recent article in...
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I'm delighted to report that another look at the 1999 red burgundies now that they are in bottle did nothing...
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I'm delighted to report that another look at the 1999 red burgundies now that they are in bottle did nothing...
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