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Napa's new AVA, a massive wine-fraud bust, UK harvest woes, hidden sugar in 'dry' wine
Plus musings on Hong Kong’s liquor-duty slashing as incentive to revive its nightlife. Above, Bremer Family Winery, one of the wineries within California's new Crystal Springs of Napa Valley AVA...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
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Wine fraud – a self-defence class
Counterfeit wine is a reality; here's how to protect yourself from being duped. Pictured above is one of seven bottles of de Vogüé Musigny Blanc 1962 withdrawn from Spectrum Wine...
Tamlyn Currin
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12 October 2017 We're making this article free to provide a bit of vicarious enjoyment of the ancients.
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Nick Bartman, the lawyer specialising in anti-counterfeiting who was responsible for our riveting series on Chinese fakery, has a simple...
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A slightly shorter version of this article was also published in the Financial Times. When she wanted hands-on winemaking experience...
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The wine trade would dearly love the whole issue of fake wine to disappear. I keep thinking of Aubert de...
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The following is a statement by Stephen Wlliams of The Antique Wine Company in response to the lawsuit described in...
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Alder on America
Not since the Mondavi brothers faced each other in a San Francisco courtroom has there been so much drama in...
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See Julia's notes on Pomerol 2012s on Monday.
At the en primeur tasting earlier this month in their very fine...
Alder on America
These days it seems as though the tool of choice for the upper echelon of the American fine-wine scene is...
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Burgundians were shocked yesterday to find three pages of their daily paper, the quaintly named Bien Public, devoted to the...
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American wine writer Michael Steinberger has been rather quiet of late as he has been entangled with the Vanity Fair...
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