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Domaine de la Romanée-Conti – biting the bullet in 2023
An extreme vintage rarefied by eye-watering selection. Above, co-directors Betrand de Villaine and Perrine Fenal with Corney & Barrow’s managing director Adam Brett-Smith. See this guide to our coverage of...
Julia Harding MW
Tuesday 17 February 2026
• 2 min read
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2022 bordeaux four years on – left-bank reds
Jancis Robinson
Wednesday 11 February 2026
• 3 min read
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The second half of the 222 tasting notes that accompany Walter's Brunello 2016 – outstanding, in parts and Brunello 2016...
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Half of the tasting notes to accompany Walter's Brunello 2016 – outstanding, in parts and Brunello 2016 – the stars...
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Coteaux Champenois inspected, if not uniformly enjoyed.
As I do every now and then, I took part in a tasting...
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As these wines are enthusiastically offered by the fine-wine merchants, we try to see through the hype, and include tasting...
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As a complement to From FMV to Liberty we publish this selection of tasting notes on wines now available to...
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Last year, Wines of Hungary put on their annual Furmint February tasting just a couple of weeks before UK lockdown...
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Julia revels in some top-notch biodynamic wines with a German accent, and sorts out those confusing biodynamic organisations.
2 February...
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A mixed bag of sparkling wines including two(!) Bollinger RD 1976s, English fizz and an exceptional Spanish discovery. Above, the...
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It's an ill wind that blows no good. The first of two articles reviewing some seriously fine wines that have...
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Two women presented a second growth to two women – with admirable results.
Julia and I selflessly undertook, in stereo...
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Wines that deserve to be taken notice of, with apologies for grouping so many vibrant and distinctive cultures together. Seen...
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Marvel at what's been going on inland from Dénia on the Costa Blanca.
La Marina Alta is the northernmost area...
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A gap filled, with Tannat.
We try to make our coverage as comprehensive as possible but there has been a...
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Tam's taste buds tangle with an F-35 fighter-jet of a wine. It's exactly 200 years since sherry producer Barbadillo was...
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An under-appreciated and significant resource in Argentine vineyards investigated.
I recently co-hosted an intriguing webinar and tasting for Wines of...
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Want to save the planet …? Seen above, by drone, are Rié and Hirofumi Shoji in their Pedres Blanques vineyard...
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