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Bordeaux 2025 – a pivotal en primeur campaign?
Nick Martin reflects as another en primeur campaign winds up. Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste (pictured above) bundled a visit to the property with the en primeur purchase of their ‘variation case’ this...
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I'm just back from a few days in New York, where we caught up with our younger daughter, who is...
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The story I'm going to tell you today started a few years ago at one of the best restaurants in...
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Today my fellow English wine writer Steven Spurrier turns 70. This is quite surprising in view of how youthful he...
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I have just returned from the Douro, where this year's harvest began as early as August, much earlier than the...
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My husband Nick Lander is, fortunately for me, a seriously good home cook – who seems to be absolutely fearless...
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See also Terroir spotting in Trentino – part 2. A couple of years ago, while reporting on a Riesling event...
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Last Friday the line-up of wines I will present at one of the three big tastings to be held at...
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This time last year, just before the Bordeaux vintage, we lost one of the region’s human monuments, Thierry Manoncourt of...
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Former BBC political correspondent Emma Udwin is an adviser at the European Commission in Brussels. After many years specialising in...
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Richard gets to the bottom of restaurant reviewing... My theory goes that you can judge the calibre of a restaurant...
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Rebecca Yeamans is the tasting-room manager for Afton Mountain Vineyards in Virginia. She writes a blog called The Academic Wino...
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This article by Andy Lloyd is the fifth in an irregular season of features written by previous winners of the...
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Emily O'Hare has been working in the wine industry since 2004 – as a tour guide at Vinopolis, a waitress...
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Bartholomew Broadbent, son of Michael, runs a leading American wine importer, Broadbent Selections, Inc. He also makes Port, Madeira and...
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No, this is not about Jancis' old book on grape varieties [Vines, Grapes & Wines, 1986] (nor the new one...
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This article is the second in an irregular season of features written by previous winners of the Young Wine Writer...
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