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Grenache – now a headliner in Washington
Cab may be king but Grenache is where the excitement is in Washington State. Above, terraced bush-vine Grenache in WeatherEye vineyard. It took only sixty years for Grenache to earn...
Patrick Comiskey
Friday 10 October 2025
• 4 min read
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Beyond Bordeaux in 2025
Some of the world’s more ambitious, and ambitiously priced, wines – those offered this year on the Bordeaux Place. Above, the Beyond Bordeaux tasting at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore...
Jancis Robinson
Wednesday 17 September 2025
• 6 min read
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WWC25 – Daughter of Scuppanon’, by Monique Bell
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Saturday 23 August 2025
• 1 min read
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Clayton Fox talks to one of Napa's most famous organic pioneers for his entry to our sustainability heroes competition. 'I...
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With no fewer than three entries to our writing competition, Aaron Bartels, flag-bearer of sustainable Oregon and fine-wine specialist for...
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‘A self-identified dreamer, writer, oenophile and seeker. A Kentucky native who has lived in Chicago, Denver, Oakland and is now...
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This is Aaron Bartels' second (unedited) entry to our sustainability heroes writing competition. For his first entry and all the...
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' My name is Aaron David Bartels, MA WSET 3 with Distinction. I currently work as a fine wine specialist...
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Introducing his (unedited) entry to our 2020 writing competition, Jerry Smith writes, ' I am an amateur in the world...
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Forget three-digit prices and take advantage of the creativity of California's new generation of wine producers. A version of this...
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The second half of a survey of some of the brightest and best of California. See also New-wave California A–J...
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California is about so much more than Napa Cabernet and basic brands, and more and more of these lighter, fresher...
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Samantha Cole-Johnson, our intrepid 26-year-old winery intern (ex Willamette and Barossa), reports on the effects of coronavirus-related restrictions on her...
Alder on America
Alder explains how the US wine business has dodged the 100% tariff bullet but is seriously suffering from the 25%...
Alder on America
21 January Phew. It looks as though the threat of punitive US tariffs on EU imports of French sparkling wine...
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13 January 2020 See Alder's report on the hearing held on 7 and 8 January in Washington DC. 7 January...
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The US – China trade war has had far-reaching effects on the California wine industry, not least in its choice...
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A version of this article, about a Gascon in Washington DC, is published by the Financial Times .
There are...
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How the wine trade is responding to the new US tariffs. US imports of French, Spanish, German and English wine...
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