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How The Rocks rock
In search of the very special character of wines from this area on the border of Oregon and Washington. At the beginning of March, when Elaine and I embarked on...

Samantha Cole-Johnson
Wednesday 15 June 2022
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The Sommelier's Atlas of Taste – book review
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Wine and Place – book review
Australian wine luminary Brian Croser is mightily impressed by a book published in January.
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MW symposium – more on microbes
See also MW Symposium – wines on the frontier. Living Wine, the title of the 9th MW Symposium held in...
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MW symposium – wines on the frontier
I spent last weekend in a buzz of 450 Masters of Wine, MW students and wine producers from 30 countries...
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When terroir trumps quality
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When might a wine producer not want to make the best possible wine?
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Hemming's spittoon
What the future holds for wine (possibly)
Richard won the online category in last night's Louis Roederer Wine Writers Awards for his Spittoon series. Many congratulations to...
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Beaujolais – the 10 crus dissected
The following concise summary of the Beaujolais terroir project and the region's soils was produced by cartographer Sigales in alliance...
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Viñateros – a Spanish wine revolution
Viñatero is Spanish for ‘winegrower’, with the emphasis on the word grower, and this London tasting, bringing together seven UK...
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Microbial terroir – current research round-up
The following notes and images formed the basis of a presentation on microbial terroir (a new entry in the latest...
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Book reviews
Book reviews – production part 1
For links to all of Tam's reviews of wine books published in 2016, see this guide .
Wine Production and...
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Microbial terroir: UC Davis leads the way
11 August 2016 Today’s Throwback Thursday article, first published a month ago and now free, shows just how much progress...
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Microbiologists – wine's new heroes
4 August 2016 Microbes are everywhere, and there’s a growing interest in their decisive role in the vineyard and the...
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Max on Oz
Australia discovers terroir
See also o ur Australian assemblage. ‘Miyurna! Naa marni purrutyi? Ngai nari Kumatpi Marrutya Ngai wangkanthi, ‘Marni naa pudni Kaurna...
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Sunshine hours and Chardonnay in Chile
Marcelo Papa, winemaker for Chilean behemoth Concha y Toro, has a willingness to reveal all the detail and thinking behind...
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Volcanic wines – fact or fiction?
Do wines produced from vines grown on volcanic soils have any shared characteristics? Finding a tentative answer to this question...
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East meets west through terroir
Shanghai-based Master of Wine student Young Shi (in a grey suit with orange scarf below) of prominent Chinese wine website...
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