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Germany's tiny 2025 vintage, Oregon wildfire payout, Ram's Gate Winery goes ROC
Plus a full list of Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC) estates around the world. Also, a $99-million wine Ponzi scheme and an initiative to recognise fortified-wine production as Intangible Cultural Heritage...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 25 October 2025
• 1 min read
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A Corbières trio from Clos de l'Anhel
Tamlyn Currin
Friday 19 September 2025
• 1 min read
Wine news in 5
EU wildfires set record, Château Lafleur leaves Pomerol, Canada lifts tariffs on US wine
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 30 August 2025
• 1 min read
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Life was surprisingly tough for those on the fringes of Bordeaux, even before the recent wildfires.
On the way to...
Tasting articles
The valley's white wines largely escaped the effects of 2020 wildfires.
I n early May I tasted through a collection...
Inside information
A Napa Valley leader makes quite a radical adjustment.
In spring of 2021 I met with winemaker Cory Empting at...
Inside information
Napa's reds from the controversial 2020 vintage will be rare, but those that will be released later this year should...
Alder on America
Last year's California wine production was severely shrunk by the effects of the 2020 wildfires, but by how much? And...
Inside information
Samantha visited 38 producers recently, and could hardly overlook the smoky elephant in the room… See also Smoke taint –...
Max on Oz
Some smoke-affected wines are going down a storm Down Under. See also Smoke taint – a winemaker's view, Smoke taint...
Inside information
Kate Nowell-Smith describes making wine as wildfires rage in Sonoma, and what she has learnt. She took this picture looking...
Tasting articles
Three very, very different California wine producers compared.
The launch of the latest vintage of Opus One, the first under...
Alder on America
Alder follows up on Arnica Rowan’s despatch from scorching north-west North America.
On 29 June, as the so-called heat dome...
Free for all
Arnica Rowan reports from the centre of the current fatal heat dome. The record-breaking little town of Lytton, above, has...
Tasting articles
5 July 2021 Some more wines added, from Giant Steps, Yangarra and a second Hickinbotham.
1 July 2021 What Australian...
Alder on America
Alder explains exactly how and why Californian wine producers are so dependent on a commodity that is running out fast...
Wines of the week
For International Sauvignon Blanc Day, a truly superior example – recommended even to those who say they don’t like Sauvignon...
Alder on America
California vintners are being forced to learn about a whole new threat. Rosés and bargains are likely to abound from...
Inside information
30 September 2021 BluAgri, part of the Esseco Group, and SOP Inside have gone their separate ways and are currently...
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