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Volcanic Wine Awards 2026
We’re excited to announce that we’ve partnered with Volcanic Wines International to support and produce the Volcanic Wine Awards for 2026. The Volcanic Wine Awards is the only international wine...
Team JR
Thursday 28 August 2025
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Tracing Tressallier – from nowhere to know where
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Friday 27 June 2025
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A little French wine region with an explosive opportunity. See also my 40+ tasting notes. In this article I focus...
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From €19.90 (on offer), 95 Romanian lei, CA$32, $28, 3,110 yen, HK$240, £29.95, 33.25 Swiss francs, AU$52, 1,170 Taiwan dollars...
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Eight more profiles with tastings notes from my trip to Santorini last May.
See Santorini’s other active volcano for an...
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The first half of my tasting notes from three action-packed days on the island in May. See also Santorini's other...
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A look at the most pressing issues on the island today. See also Santorini tasting notes part 1 and part...
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Savvas Kyriakidis takes us by the hand around this popular Greek island. See this guide to all the entries in...
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From $26.99, €32.40, £217 per case of 6 Find this wine What’s in a name? Everything in this case: from...
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Contrade dell’Etna, the annual en primeur presentation of Etna wines which took place last April just below Europe’s largest and...
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One of the saddest recent losses to the wine world was that of Haridimos Hatzidakis, all-too-young founder of the outstanding...
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25 January 2018 We are republishing this fascinating article free today in our Throwback Thursday series.
17 January 2018 Dr...
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See Sicily 2017 – the guide for all the fascinating articles in this series. There is a group of tiny...
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See also Hidden Etna Part 1 – the east and the associated tasting notes . For all our recent coverage...
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This is the first of two riveting articles based on Walter's original researches on the less familiar flanks of Sicily's...
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24 August 2017 We're republishing this article from 2009, in our Throwback Thursday series, as a tribute to the hugely...
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See my tasting notes f rom this year's Contrade dell'Etna. Last April the ninth edition of the hugely popular Contrade...
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Do wines produced from vines grown on volcanic soils have any shared characteristics? Finding a tentative answer to this question...
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