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The cross-Channel special relationship
A look at Anglo-French love through the lens of wine. Plus a guide to the UK’s fine-wine traders. A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times...
Jancis Robinson
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Wine news in 5
Brutal weather threatens vineyards, Chianti rosé, latest global wine stats
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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See Champagne shootout – 95 v 96 for an account of the inspiration for and organisation of this blind tasting...
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Dom Pérignon 1996 has just been released, along with 1998 vintage Moët in both colours – rosé apparently being the...
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It's our wedding anniversary today – our 22nd in fact. So to mark this particularly two-ish celebration, I'm going to...
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This current champagne release from Krug is absolutely stunning. I urge you to seek it out if you are a...
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My colleague Tom Stevenson produces even more books than I do and one of his most useful is his annual...
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I wrote last year about how promising the 1996 vintage looks and now many more houses have released theirs. Read...
Tasting articles
Quality varies enormously, as usual. Look out for my forthcoming notes on many recent releases of the exceptional 1996 vintage...
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It was notable at yesterday's annual giant champagne tasting in London that a very high proportion of the wines on...
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When researching my annual Christmas wine features for the Financial Times, I was struck by how stable prices of most...
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A certain amount of serious champagne tasting in October and November this year hints at various vintage characteristics (for the...
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See wine news for my overview of a fascinating recent tasting of champagnes from these two unusually good vintages. The...
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Non-vintage champagne may increasingly be regarded as a commodity to lure bargain hunters into unfamiliar supermarkets or reward assiduous salespersons...
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(originally published in the Financial Times in April 1999) Champagne Charlies, those lounge lizards whose job it is to sell...
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My first day back at work after the summer break consisted of a trip to Reims to taste a vertical...
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Jean-Claude Rouzaud of Roederer considers '95 one of the great vintages, and prefers '89 to '90 which can be very...
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