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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
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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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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
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Nick on restaurants
A vegetable-dominated, all-female enterprise in the hills of the Haut-Languedoc has won great acclaim. Nick went to investigate. Image above...
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The second of a three-part series on sustainable wine touring in the Languedoc from Louise Hurren, a wine communicator who...
Nick on restaurants
In a follow-on from From Paris to the Med Nick recommends a simple but satisfying restaurant in Burgundy and one...
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This entry to our 2023 wine writing competition is by professor and wine expert Nathalie Spielmann, who writes about Fabrice...
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This Alsace-based biodynamic group is growing in size and stature, gathering top names in wine from all corners of France...
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With water in short supply, Roussillon's vintners are planning ahead. Above, one of Treloar's old-vine vineyards showing verdant ground cover...
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Despite abundant sun and warmth and a distinct lack of water, Roussillon's best wines stand out for their freshness and...
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Quite a collection of minimal-input wines here – mainly French but do take a look at the Spanish ones. Above...
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Ecological economics, the theory and practice of disruptive, sustainable economic systems such as degrowth economics, is something we’re going to...
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Graham Nutter from Ch St-Jacques d'Albas details an eventful – and potentially terrific – vintage in his corner of the...
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A 600-ha estate in the northern Corbières is being ambitiously and ecologically transformed by Aymeric Izard and Anne Besse, seen...
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Later on 12 September In last week's old-vine article Tam wrote about Domaine Jones based in Fitou on the southern...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times.
If proof were needed that wine is a subjective...
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This submission to our 2022 wine writing competition takes us to Alsace, where some producers are exploring the regenerative role...
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This submission to our WWC22 competition describes the regeneration of a winery in Saussignac, south-west France. See our WWC22 guide...
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30 June 2022 We republish this useful guide in our Throwback Thursday series, for wine lovers descending on Burgundy this...
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