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The cross-Channel special relationship
A look at Anglo-French love through the lens of wine. Plus a guide to the UK’s fine-wine traders. A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times...
Jancis Robinson
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. For reviews of nearly 70 current...
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Here are the nearly 70 tasting notes I took at this year's English Wine Producers tasting on St George's Day...
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From £7.85 Find this wine http://www.biddendenvineyards.com Still red wines are not exactly English wine's strongest suit. They can be strangely...
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Susanna Forbes is currently studying at Plumpton College and is in the process of launching www.drinkbritain.com highlighting the best producers...
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The 'news' that Nyetimber, an English sparkling wine, had supposedly beaten Champagne Bollinger in a blind tasting organised in Italy...
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So how was vintage 2009 in the burgeoning vineyards of England? Plumpton College, the academic outfit with its own vineyards...
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Before the recent AGM of the Royal Household Wine Committee at Buckingham Palace, the penultimate before my two three-year terms...
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A year has now passed since my first vineyard dispatch on 14 Aug 2008 [three weeks before our dramatic site...
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‘It would be endless to mention how many good judges of wine were deceived by my wine, and thought it...
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See also Richard's views on why English wine is not Champagne. The notes below were taken at the awards ceremony...
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Viticulture is a growth business. At this time of year especially, the plants are shooting up like junkies. With 50...
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It has been six weeks since my last visit to Gusbourne Estate, so I wondered how different it would be...
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I spent my day in the Gusbourne vineyard this week performing what essentially amounts to an Enhanced Interrogation Technique for...
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The worst job I ever had was on a municipal landfill near Bedford. It was literally rubbish. What had once...
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I was back amidst the vines this week after an enforced four week hiatus. The enforcement was entirely beyond my...
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As the bright winter sun rose over Appledore this week, a sheen of hoarfrost was slowly unveiled, twinkling across the...
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