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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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Last week I was given probably the rarest wine I will ever have the chance to taste. It was only...
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Italy’s fondness for en primeur tastings continues unabated (see, for example, Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino, Nebbiolo Prima, etc, etc)...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See my Exotica from the Canary...
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See this Guide to our Sicilian week. This is the finale of Walter Speller's series on Sicily, published this week...
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See this Guide to our Sicilian week. The penultimate article in Walter Speller's series on Sicily, published this week. Other...
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From €10.95 and $18.98 Find this wine (and Ch Sigalas Rabaud 2009 Sauternes) As I explained in my account of...
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Look out for a plethora of tasting notes on Italy's recent fine vintages next week – JR It is not...
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Santorini’s kids have been whooping it up in the snow that fell 17-18 Feb. Although it’s only three years since...
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A few years ago the world of wine was alerted to the catastrophe about to befall the beautiful Greek island...
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Yiannis Paraskevopoulos, one of the real stars of modern Greek wine, sent me the following report of a particularly disastrous...
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