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Plus some wine-scholarship opportunities and events and site news before the Wine News takes a break. Before I dive in, I’d like to congratulate Jancis for taking #2 in Drinks...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
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Suppose you owned the world’s biggest luxury goods company, comprising a host of competing brands. (Yeah, dream on.) To what...
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Most people are prepared to pay a premium for champagne, whether or not they understand the reasons for that premium...
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Our 23rd published entrant into last year's wine writing competition is James Dowdeswell, who says:
I am an award winning...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See also Krug Grandes Cuvées compared blind.
A common...
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See also today's Throwback Thursday, Fizz and fortified – more information please. What could be more agreeable than a blind...
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9 February 2017 This week’s Throwback Thursday – Jancis’s appeal for greater transparency from the producers of non-vintage wines –...
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We're publishing just one of the two articles submitted by candidate number 16 in our wine writing competition as we...
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Tam continues her series reviewing wine (and distilled wine) books published this year. For links to all her reviews, see...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Blind tasting is extremely educational, but has a nasty...
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See also 2002 champagnes and other fizzes. One thing I find very difficult, as really astute visitors to this website...
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See also today's Throwback Thursday article on Bottle, and magnum, variation. Sir Winston Churchill first met Odette Pol-Roger at a...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See these tasting notes on 2006 and 1996 prestige...
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14 July 2016 To complement all our articles about sparkling wines and champagnes this week, and as a rather cheekily...
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See this guide to our assemblages. Jancis writes In this week when we published two articles on some very smart...
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Although they are masters of glamorous on-screen product placement (think James Bond and Ab Fab), Bollinger have always seemed a...
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See also 1996 champagne – still sparkling? Last week we published a tasting article devoted to champagne growers and other...
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