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Blind tasting, part 9 – Riesling
How to identify this characterful variety in its various guises, from Germany and elsewhere. Today’s lesson is devoted to one of the wine world’s most cherished varieties: Riesling. It’s also...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
• 14 min read
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A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. I spent all last week tasting 2016 burgundies...
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From £12.75, AU$16.80, $23, CA$25, 185 Norwegian krone Find this wine Alpha Box & Dice first came to my attention...
Tasting articles
See also Cape Mentelle International Cabernet Tasting 2017 and Triumph for Margaret River Chardonnay. The few days Nick and I...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. There were five of us round a corner table...
Book reviews
Max reviews The Way It Was: A History of the Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry by Peter...
Tasting articles
See also today Max Allen's review of a closely related book as well as my reports on the Cape Mentelle...
Nick on restaurants
I am deliberately writing about restaurants in Australia again (see Around and about in Melbourne) and plan to add a...
Nick on restaurants
It is not every day that begins with a taxi ride with a Fijian driver who has become an amateur...
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September’s Australian Women in Wine tasting that I report on today was held at London's Australia House. This imposing building...
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For more on the Australian Women in Wine Awards that preceded this tasting in London at the end of September...
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Margaret River in Western Australia is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary as a wine region and I will very soon be...
Tasting articles
As Max reported recently in Rebirth of the Australian super-blend, some of the giants of the Australian wine business are...
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See also Julia's article today about a tasting of mature Grüner Veltliners and Rieslings in Austria. When's the best time...
Tasting articles
You will have gleaned from Max's most recent article Rebirth of the Australian super-blend that Australia’s top producers are embracing...
Tasting articles
The annual launch of The Penfolds Collection, the jewel in Treasury Wine Estates' crown, has become almost as ritualistically stage-managed...
Max on Oz
This has been the year of Australian super-blends: new, high-profile, high-priced reds that hark back to an older period in...
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