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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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One of the most interesting encounters I had while in Porto last week (see my videos this week) was with...
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'Tis the season of goodwill. Or at least 'twas, until I read Michel Bettane in this month's The World of...
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The premier of South Australia Mike Rann blew through London at the end of last week on the way to...
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San Francisco-based Alder Yarrow of vinography.com, who wins awards for his blog with impressive frequency, shares with us one thing...
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Wine drinkers, and particularly winemakers, in Australia are being urged to drink local. Highly respected producer Stephen Pannell of S...
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Update 27 May 2011: Charles Banks is also involved with the new Sandhi venture in California, making a burgundian-style Wine...
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PARKER LOCKED OUT OF HALL OF FAME The Vintners Hall of Fame, headquartered at the Culinary Institute of America's Greystone...
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Today I bring you two important announcements for the future of Australian wine. Firstly, as I write, the final four...
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Last week's announcement that the French-owned wine and spirits company Pernod Ricard was selling off its Gisborne winery, Hawke's Bay...
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I arrived here last night feeling as though I was lucky that my little hire car, with its precious full...
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Umay Çeviker, the Turkish architect and wine lover who sent us this report back in March, sends the following thought-provoking...
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In the same week that record label Decca launched his 12-year-old daughter as 'Isabel the Choirgirl', a record signing and...
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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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Following in the footsteps of Napa Valley, Paso Robles and Lodi, Sonoma County secured California state legislative approval for a...
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It was #Cabernet Day yesterday. Did you know? Possibly yes if you are an American fan of Twitter, especially if...
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As drizzly, foggy mornings and mild (75–85 °F) afternoons continue to delay the 2010 grape harvest in California by as...
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