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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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Oceanic wine
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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Now the dust has settled, we begin a series of articles looking back at the 2010 en primeur campaign in...
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Labelling of wine has long been a contentious issue, and has certainly been discussed at length on this site (see...
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For over 200 tasting notes on every conceivable style and variety of Alsace wines, see Alsace – 10 top producers...
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This article begins an irregular season of features written by previous winners of the Young Wine Writer Award.
Rebecca Gibb...
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See the introduction to this five-part series here . Last, but not least, is Atrio. Atrio is in Cáceres, which...
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See the introduction to this five-part series here . I wish Monvinic were in my city rather than 600 kilometres...
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See the introduction to this five-part series here. Villa Mas is quite a different animal. Certainly an unusual one. It...
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See yesterday's introduction and first favourite restaurant here. Celler de Can Roca is probably my overall favourite restaurant in Spain...
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I wonder if English sparkling now needs its own appellation? Ridgeview once had the idea of using the word Merret...
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This is the first of this week's five-part guide to the best restaurant wine lists in Spain by our Spanish...
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Richard has written the introduction to our joint account of tasting some of the summer selections at Majestic, the successful...
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At some point in the great history of the human race, somebody figured out that the ideal serving of a...
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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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Tai-Ran Niew, a refugee from the world of finance most recently based in Washington DC, now considering a career in...
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Well, I could introduce myself, but Jancis does that here and anyway I would rather tell you what I like...
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Brian Croser, founder of Petaluma and senior figure in Australian wine, muses on last week's wine symposium in the nation's...
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