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Grenache – now a headliner in Washington
Patrick Comiskey
Friday 10 October 2025
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WWC25 – Daughter of Scuppanon’, by Monique Bell
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Saturday 23 August 2025
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Australia's biggest wine company, Treasury Wine Estates, once (in its long and complicated history) the wine division of brewers Foster's...
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On 10 June, the skies above Napa and Sonoma crackled and boomed with the rare sounds of a spring thunderstorm...
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These days it seems as though the tool of choice for the upper echelon of the American fine-wine scene is...
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The 63 wines described below are just some of those I encountered on my recent whirlwind tour of the United...
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A few years ago London's fine-wine traders and merchants en masse opened up subsidiaries in Hong Kong. As you can...
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To much of the civilised world, it seems most natural. You walk into your local grocery store or supermarket and...
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Hardly has the dust settled on Wine Grapes (for which we were awarded the top drinks book prize in Paris...
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'I've never fired a winemaker, they've always fired themselves. Every one of them has had their own issues', said Don...
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By Paul O'Doherty. See our guide to 2012 wine book reviews. Soft Soil, Black Grapes
The Birth of Italian Winemaking...
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One of my embarrassing personal secrets has always been that I have a lousy memory for what I drink. People...
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See also Jim Law's account of the situation in Virginia. When storms hit US wine regions, one can count on...
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See also Alder Yarrow on Prices and politics in California's 2012 harvest. To write a book on American wine, it...
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On my recent trip to Austria, I stopped in at one of the city’s more well-regarded chain wine stores, Wein...
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'Mildew, botrytis (pictured, by Koolbe), blue mould, green mould, you name it, it was everywhere. This is the most difficult...
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At a certain point in my childhood, Christmas faced a stiff challenge as my favourite holiday. Never mind that I...
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I'm just back from a few days in New York, where we caught up with our younger daughter, who is...
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