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Alder's most memorable California wines 2025
Pleasure – and meaning – in the glass. In reflecting on a year of tasting, I am fascinated by what persists in memory. Which wines have remained vivid and which...
Alder Yarrow
Wednesday 31 December 2025
• 2 min read
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Barolo 2022 and some late releases – the tasting notes
Walter Speller
Tuesday 30 December 2025
• 8 min read
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Tam falls in love. It was one of those, 'Where have you been all my life?!' moments. I recently had...
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See Austria's super-pure 2019 Grüner Veltliners and More Austrians – mainly 2019 Rieslings for my review of 200+ current releases...
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The prince of the Languedoc shows off his latest single-vineyard wines. Portrait of the master of all he surveys by...
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Many a wine of serious interest to buyers, wherever they are in the world.
As usual with offerings from The...
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Some good and very good buys here – wines that should be available internationally.
Regular readers will be familiar with...
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The last of Michael's three collections of tasting notes on (mostly) 2019 Grosse Gewächse. See his notes on GGs from...
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The second of Michael's three collections of tasting notes on Riesling 2019 Grosse Gewächse. See his notes on GGs from...
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Some real gems from South Africa crying out for more attention. See also Why you should buy South African and...
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A history and geography lesson centred on one of Spain's oldest wine regions. It's hot. It's dry. And it deserves...
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Eger is the mosaic of the Hungarian wine regions: 66 grape varieties; colourful soils composed of dozens of different minerals...
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The first of three collections of tasting notes on (mostly) 2019 Grosse Gewächse to supplement Jancis's already published. Michael identifies...
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Julia's second report based on the annual Traditionsweingüter tasting in Austria. Last time the Grüner Veltliners, this time everything else...
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It's clear how Red Mountain in Washington state, pictured above © Richard Duval Images , got its name. Here Alder...
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The first of four tranches of tasting notes on white Grosse Gewächse from the exciting 2019 vintage. See also this...
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Where is the 'Capital of Kékfrankos' and the motherland of Juhfark? Head to north-western Hungary …
Somló
It rises up...
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With pink wine considered so respectable, and potentially lucrative, now, we suggest a few to wash away late-summer blues.
We...
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