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Moon Mountain – Sonoma's volcanic organic stronghold
The combination of historic vineyards, high elevation, volcanic soils and organic viticulture make this little-known AVA stand out. Above, Lasseter Winery’s Trinity Ridge vineyard in the Moon Mountain District (credit...
Alder Yarrow
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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 of...
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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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Sicily’s Etna is regularly described as the ‘Burgundy of the south’, which I take as a reference to its parcellated...
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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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