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Germany's tiny 2025 vintage, Oregon wildfire payout, Ram's Gate Winery goes ROC
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
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EU wildfires set record, Château Lafleur leaves Pomerol, Canada lifts tariffs on US wine
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 30 August 2025
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Updated at 06.30 11 July The ABC/Qupé winery and Bien Nacido vines were spared – just. See this picture and...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times . See Mainly Itata for relevant tasting notes. ‘It’s...
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2 February Encouraged by Purple Pager Wink Lorch, we are today republishing free Derek Mossman Knapp’s account of the terrible...
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Last Tuesday was a black day for Priorat. A severe thunderstorm affected the core of the region causing four small-scale...
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Updated 29 Nov 2011 Peter Forrestal updates us thus: It would seem that truth is not only the first casualty...
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It is almost two years since I enjoyed a blind tasting of (mostly) Australian Pinot Noir with Tom Carson, winemaker...
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22 Jul update – By the time I flew out of Okanagan yesterday late afternoon, all the fires seemed to...
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Oh dear. In a few hours' time I'm supposed to set off on a very brief visit to the Most...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. As a wine writer I don't...
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Leanne De Bortoli sends the following report from the heart of post-bushfires Yarra Valley. We have been and are still...
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Dr Tony Jordan of the Yarra Valley Winegrowers Association sends the following report. Since the statement we released on 13...
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In the aftermath of the deadly Australian bushfires, San Francisco will host a tasting and silent auction of Victorian wines...
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Here's a statement just issued (so recently that it is dated tomorrow) by Dr Tony Jordan, president of the Yarra...
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Feb 14 – see heart-warming correction re Rupert's Ridge at ** below. Stories continue to pour in of the devastation...
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All the talk between wine people has been of the exceptional Australian heatwave that has been ravaging the country and...
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