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Bordeaux, Burgundy – it's time to irrigate!
4 September 2025 Château Lafleur quitting the restrictive appellation contrôlée system has put irrigation in the spotlight again. We’re republishing this report from 2022, and its riposte, to inform the...
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Thursday 4 September 2025
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Wine production – who pays the price?
A look at vineyard labourers in particular. A much shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Photo credit: Daria Szotek/Vineworks. The winegrowers of the world are...
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 14 June 2025
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15 September This is the first in a series we thought would be particularly useful for wine students so we...
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The level of detail in the technical presentations at last month’s International Cool Climate Wine Symposium in Brighton, alluded to...
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When Chris Boiling bought his winehouse and small vineyard in Slovenia, he imagined winters would be spent getting to grips...
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We were sent a query the other day by a German journalist who had read the entry on crop thinning...
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It is always fascinating to get some insights into the tremendous effort and innovation that goes into the bottles of...
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Here follows the second part of Brian Croser's précis of John Gladstones' latest book Wine, Terroir and Climate Change. Part...
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Highly respected Western Australian Dr John Gladstones AM recently published his latest book, Wine, Terroir and Climate Change , to...
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A brief visit to the Douro last month yielded some interesting tastings of both ports and table wines, on which...
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Berlin-based wine writer Stuart Pigott, one of the most celebrated in Germany, has just made his first-ever wine. Here's the...
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