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Tariffs head to Supreme Court, ketchup pays more than wine, alcohol guideline report shelved
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 12 September 2025
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Diary of a Napa harvest intern – part 2
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Monday 7 September 2020
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Another revealing encounter at San Polino outside Montalcino and praise for their 2014.
At the beginning of August I visited...
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To celebrate 4 July we examine yeasty matters in the Napa Valley.
In 2012 Michael Silacci (pictured), the amiable Opus...
Max on Oz
Our Australian columnist passes on news of a potentially ground-breaking discovery from Down Under. For a general introduction to yeasts...
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See also MW Symposium – wines on the frontier. Living Wine, the title of the 9th MW Symposium held in...
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Those who read Schmidt on Sponti on Monday may be particularly interested in these experiences with spontaneous fermentation in New...
Don't quote me
A comment by Julia about some of the German wines of the 2014 vintage in this thread on our Members'...
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Part 3 of my coverage of the NEW11 on yeast as part of terroir provoked such a long thread in...
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See also the introductory part 1, part 2 on soils, part 4 on the consumer, and finally the tasting notes...
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Please sign a petition on behalf of the excellent Cullen Wines of Margaret River, Western Australia, whose heartfelt motto is...
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Take a look at the results of an absolutely fascinating study of the ambient yeasts involved in making wine at...
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In a world first, scientists at The Australian Wine Research Institute have cracked the genetic code of a wine yeast...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. The beauty of wine is supposed...
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