Volcanic Wine Awards 2026
In 2026 we partnered with Volcanic Wine International to hold a wine competition focused solely on wines from volcanic terroirs around the world. Here you’ll find the details of the competition as well as the results, which we will post as they become available.
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The awards competition and the results
The why and how behind a tasting focused on wines from volcanic soils around the world. Written by the man who started it, John Szabo MS. Above, a vineyard in...
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Julia realises a long-held dream of visiting this isolated Portuguese island in the middle of the Atlantic to discover its extreme vineyards and unique wines made by resilient, obsessively committed winegrowers. See also Pico – the tasting notes. Where's Pico...
Perfectly picnic-ready Austrian white wine, sun-bright, energetic and charming, and starting at €10.99, $21.99, £19. The table was laden with sliced smoked hams and paprika-spiced sausages, platters of brawn and liverwurst (liver sausage), alpine cheeses, pickled vegetables and crunchy fresh...
Passopisciaro’s Etna reds back to 2010 suggest yes – but, Walter asks, does ageability really matter? Above, Benjamin Franchetti of Passopisciaro. Last autumn I was invited to taste several older vintages of Passopisciaro’s Contrada P, Contrada G and Contrada S...
Jancis and Florencia (seen bottom left above) try to get to grips with nearly 500 new-wave Spanish wines. Jancis's laptop screen can just be seen. Jancis writes When you have nearly 500 exciting wines to choose from at a tasting...
An enforced Dry January, and best-buy burgundy from the newly released 2022 vintage. See also Jancis's diary – January 2024. A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. I’ve never been a fan of Dry January and...
The reasons for this flight to the sun will become clear next weekend. It was just over 10 years ago when we first ventured to Tenerife, to the north of this Spanish Atlantic island that is beautifully warm even in...
What a year Alder and family have had. Here's what (occasionally) sustained him. It’s been, as they say, something of a year for me. One that I’m going to be very happy to put in the rear-view mirror. The exercise...
Santorini's 2023 harvest was tiny, even by the standards of this beautiful Cycladic island, where vines are widely spaced and produce very low yields even in good years. This photo shows the western side of the town of Oia seen...
The very first tasting notes on the winning wines, which were revealed in Athens on Friday. Last year I reviewed just over half of the winners in the 2022 competition at home in London but this year, as one of...
A companion piece to Jancis's review of Greek reds, published yesterday. This wintry photo shows Douloufakis's vineyards in Dafnes, Crete (courtesy of Douloufakis Wines). As Jancis explained in the introduction to her article, in order to be able to taste...
See Ferran's thorough primer to the Canaries' wine regions. A selection of top bottles is shown above. The 100 tasting notes below were taken mainly at a tasting of wines selected and prepared by Benito Troya (pictured below), one of...
Walter finds remarkable connections between Aglianico del Vulture and Barolo as a new generation of winegrowers embrace Aglianico’s tannins. Giulio Bagnale is pictured above in the Arteteke cellar. See part 1 for his report on three women pioneers in Vulture...