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A 21st-century A–Z of wine, part 1
The first of a three-part alphabet of wine highlighting aspects of the wine world virtually unknown in the last century. A version of this article is published by the Financial...
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Ten common myths about wine
Recently, Jancis was asked by the Financial Times to list some of the most common misperceptions about wine. While we know that you, dear reader, don't believe any of the...
Jancis Robinson
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The cork industry is thrilled to be able to report that 'leading Australian winery' Rusden ' has announced it is...
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'At the level we are, it’s much easier for quality to go down than up', said Paul Pontallier, the general...
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Jancis recently reported here on a fascinating semi-blind comparison between cork- and screwcap-stoppered Vidal Estate Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon. I was...
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The other night I undertook a small experiment. New Zealand wine producers Vidal, part of the Villa Maria group, had...
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The last of this week's reports on the 2010 vintage comes from Michael Schmelzer of Monte Bernardi, another usefully talented...
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10 Feb - And now Paul White sends a long riposte to Bob Campbell's yesterday. I am adding them both...
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One of the most interesting encounters I had while in Porto last week (see my videos this week) was with...
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The natural cork movement is currently on a charm offensive with its ilovenaturalcork.co.uk campaign. Jilly Goolden was recently espousing cork’s...
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In the light of yesterday's article in The Observer (or Sunday Guardian , as we must get used to calling...
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Oxygen and its impact on wine is a hot topic at the moment, fuelling fervent activity around the world to...
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One of the major concerns among fine wine lovers today has become the problem known as 'premature oxidation' in white...
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The battles in the closure universe over TCA-derived cork taint and oxygen transmission rates are still being waged, with a...
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Filipe da Mota Neves worked for the Portuguese trade office in London promoting Portuguese wines and ports very successfully (as...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. In the 1990s I went to...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. In the 1990s I went to...
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The world's leading cork producer Amorim of Portugal has sent out a summary of the company’s first annual Sustainability Report...
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