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West Coast chillable reds
Red wines that fit the summer vibe. Should you forget that wine is supposed to be fun, something serious wine lovers are occasionally in danger of doing, chillable red wines...
Alder Yarrow
Tuesday 15 July 2025
• 5 min read
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'Sumer is icumen in' – isn't it? A version of this article is published by the Financial Times.
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Tasting notes on wines from Laurent Ponsot's innovative négociant label – and some provocative views.
Since leaving Domaine Ponsot in...
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12 April 2019 Almost every day I receive useful suggestions for keeping wine cool in high temperatures. See the end...
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To keep us cool, Canadian wine writer Jacky Blisson considers some new ways of protecting vines in particularly vicious winters...
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Washington resident Gary Werner, who worked in wine publishing in the UK originally, reports on a worrying report. Wine professionals...
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I have been approached by a WSET Diploma student who was in risk management but now designs and supplies wine...
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Singapore has been in the wine news recently with the acquisition of a major stake in Robert Parker's publishing empire...
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The temperature, we were told, was set at precisely 20 ºC, but it felt peculiarly cooler than that as our...
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Vinexpo Asia-Pacific opens today and runs for three hot and humid days in Hong Kong. The exhibition centre and the...
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You may remember my article last March about What happens to your wine en route. In it I outlined the...
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I write all too often about the detail of specific wines and all too rarely about the mechanics of how...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See also Schildknecht on reefer madness...
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