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Neal Martin's latest book turns out to be a cantastoria*.
The Complete Bordeaux Vintage Guide One hundred and fifty years...
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Malu Lambert reports that yields are down and nerves are frayed from this cool, damp vintage, but hopes are high...
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Vastly better than 2022 for some, and much worse for others, 2023 was a tale of two islands, and a...
Alder on America
Wines should be a pure expression of a vintage and a place that's as specific as possible, right? Wrong, it...
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On Saturday we published Which red wine vintages to drink now but it concentrates largely on French wines. There is...
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A guide to Bordeaux vintages. See also UGC Bordeaux 2016 in bottle for tasting notes from the London trade tasting...
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It’s mid June, and we’re sitting in the kitchen in a small village in the Aude, watching rain lashing the...
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Each new vintage of Brunello di Montalcino is given an official rating of up to five stars. Alessandro Torcoli, editor...
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Edgardo Del Pópolo, general manager of Susana Balbo Wines, proved to be a fount of knowledge and experience when I...
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11 February In the wake of Richard's musings on vintage assessments yesterday (much discussed on our members' forum), we are...
Hemming's spittoon
Disclaimer: what follows is an incoherent collection of contradictory statements and vacuous soundbites mostly pilfered from the internet to create...
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As I write, wine producers all over France are timidly, and sometimes not so timidly, expressing enthusiasm about their 2010...
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