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Guide to our old-vines coverage
4 June 2026 In advance of the 2026 Old Vine Conference on June 8, we’re republishing this overview of our old-vines coverage, now updated to reflect all we’ve published on...
Julian Leidy
• 1 min read
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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
• 9 min read
Wine news in 5
Brutal weather threatens vineyards, Chianti rosé, latest global wine stats
Plus some wine-scholarship opportunities and events and site news before the Wine News takes a break. Before I dive in, I’d like to congratulate Jancis for taking #2 in Drinks...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
• 1 min read
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Travel tips
There's no surfing in south-east France, but surfer/philosopher/wine writer Chris Howard finds many other reasons to visit this little-known corner...
Wine news in 5
Also, a new crop of Taylor’s Port Golden Vines Diversity Scholars. Above, clockwise from top left: Kanchan Schindlauer, Emiliano Stratico...
Wine news in 5
Plus, a potential change to the laws governing Germany’s VDP estates to help them weather the fallout of spring’s devastating...
Book reviews
Hilarious, touching, mouth-watering and profound, Steve Hoffman's tale of six months in France is well worth reading.
A Season for...
Wine news in 5
Plus a quick recap of the 67 Pall Mall Global Wine Communicator Awards and harvest updates across the US and...
Wine news in 5
And bad news for lovers of Santorini's stupendous wines. Above, one of the few crates of Assyrtiko eked out of...
Nick on restaurants
An unlikely location and concept for what The New Yorker described recently as ‘the hottest restaurant in France’.
Les Grands...
Wine news in 5
Plus an update on Treasury Wine Estates’ restructuring and a curious case of €650,000-worth of stolen burgundy. Above, Montes' vineyard...
Wine news in 5
Plus relief for British Columbia wineries reeling from this winter’s devastating freeze; a new super-light sparkling wine bottle and news...
Drinks not wine
Savouring the Auld Alliance in liquid and stimulating form. Above, a Demptos cask, one of many types used to mature...
Nick on restaurants
The pleasure of trackside dining in the western Languedoc. Above, Tania Monnou of L’Art & Gourmand.
If you ever find...
Wine news in 5
Plus a brazen wine fraud case, the bankruptcy of a major California company and potential sale of Gusbourne in England...
Wines of the week
This Chablis might make you a believer, too – and it costs no more than much younger examples. Starting at...
Wine news in 5
And, on a brighter note, Gigondas Blanc has arrived, and the Austrian digital wine atlas (shown above) just got even...
Tasting articles
France's wild, warm west defies all expectations when it comes to its gorgeously fresh, limpid wines.
I’ve said it so...
Tasting articles
Can’t make it to the south of France this year? Tam finds a bevy of wines that can transport you...
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