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Chris Howard asks, if there’s such a thing as volcanic wine, can there be oceanic wine? Above, seals on the beach where the Pacific meets the Russian River – not...
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Hedgehogs, smoke, hornets… The problems continue for neophyte vigneron Chris Boiling. But the winehouse in Slovenia is finally refurbished. Click...
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This is one of two articles investigating where Franciacorta as an Italian traditional-method sparkling wine region stands today. See also...
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Chris Boiling, pictured destemming an unexpectedly large, healthy 2015 crop, continues his misadventures as a vine-grower and winemaker in Slovenia...
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It started with a tweet. I had just got back from Australia having literally tasted hundreds of Australian wines from...
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See also Richard's report on the Rieslings of Mosel and Nahe. Michael will be reporting later this month on many...
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Nacho (short for Ignacio) Campus seen here is a Mexican sommelier and ex IT professional in charge of the wine...
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30 July 2015 Tam's account of her nocturnal adventures while attending the Weinbörse presentation of the latest vintage in Germany...
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A comment by Julia about some of the German wines of the 2014 vintage in this thread on our Members'...
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Today's Throwback Thursday was published last Monday. Since sending out my weekly email last Friday, I have had several puzzled...
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The most exciting thing that happened to us when Nick and I spent a few days in Bordeaux last week...
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For today's Throwback Thursday, we travel backwards only as far as two days ago to revisit this report by wine...
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Last Thursday I hosted a wine tasting for about 40 professional people in Bath, western England (its famous Georgian crescent...
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This year’s en primeur circus was fun. Not a series of disappointments as perhaps Richard, who tasted all the embryonic...
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26 Mar 2015 In the light of today's survey of nearly 100 bordeaux 2007s retasted blind recently, I thought these...
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In 1983, Howard Garner, psychologist and Harvard professor, presented a new model to explain intelligence, differentiating nine independent kinds of...
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Young Shi was invited by the Penglai Wine Bureau in Shandong Province on the east coast to taste and judge...
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