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Rhône 2024 – other southern whites, rosés and VDNs
Alistair Cooper MW
Wednesday 10 December 2025
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Fortification for the last days of winter
Tamlyn Currin
Friday 24 February 2023
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See this guide to our assemblages. Julia writes Although we try not to focus your attention on scores, in this...
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See The archivist of Roussillon for the background to this tasting of some of France's under-appreciated treasures. The picture is...
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'Maury sweet and dry' is the strapline announcing the recent changes to the Maury appellation in Roussillon in the far...
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For many a wine drinker in the northern hemisphere, even (perhaps particularly) in the current economic climate, the chilly depths...
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