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Ballymaloe's charms
An international institution in the southern Irish countryside. In 2011 I travelled to Ballymaloe House, a 40-minute drive from Cork, Ireland, to stay the night and to interview the late...
Nick Lander
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Guide to our old-vines coverage
4 June 2026 In advance of the 2026 Old Vine Conference on 8 June, we’re republishing this overview of our old-vines coverage, newly updated. 28 June 2023 The Old Vine...
Julian Leidy
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Written in conjunction with Yohan Castaing. In a terse press release at the end of last week, the French Ministries...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See full list and my tasting...
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Yohan Castaing writes: Most French vineyards are developing much later than they were in 2011, which was admittedly an exceptionally...
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This article was also published in the Financial Times. François Simon, France's least recognised but most respected and most feared...
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I had breakfast with the French Minister of Agriculture yesterday, the way you do. Actually, it was a breakfast meeting...
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As Australia's official wine organisations publish a report claiming that the country has a wine surplus equivalent to 75% of...
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I'm pretty inured to the charms of wine books, being lucky enough to be bombarded with them each autumn. But...
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It looks as though the total French 2009 wine crop will be only 48 million hectolitres, 12% more than the...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. Largely unobserved by the rest of...
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We continue our coverage of the challenging 2008 harvest in France with a detailed look at right bank Bordeaux and...
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Over the first eight months of 2008, international exports of French wine decreased by 10% in volume, so perhaps it's...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. In all my unthinkably many years...
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The Antique Wine Company is now inviting bids for a collection of 362 of the best of the 5,000 bottles...
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Quietly, irrigation has now officially been legalised in France. A decree dated December 6 and published at the end of...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. At 11pm on March 14 I...
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Yesterday I went to a tasting of French wines chosen by my British wine writing peers and found it fascinating...
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