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Chris Howard asks, if there’s such a thing as volcanic wine, can there be oceanic wine? Above, seals on the beach where the Pacific meets the Russian River – not...
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1 October 2015 Last night LVMH celebrated the 30th anniversary of Cloudy Bay with a retrospective tasting and dinner at...
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Who could blame New Zealand Winegrowers for celebrating Sauvignon Blanc day (24 April, if you missed it), as they did...
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20 Aug 2015 Richard spotted this vintage article, written in late 2001. It's rather fun to re-read it today and...
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From NZ$69.99, €43.95, AU$69, 369.13 Danish krone, 58 Swiss francs, £39.80, HK$520 (minimum order six bottles) Find this wine I...
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The last time I visited Marlborough, in 2009, the region had experienced two large vintages in a row and winemakers...
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Not long ago I published the results of a blind comparative tasting of top white burgundies with the New Zealand...
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This is a version of an article also published by the Financial Times. Independence Day weekend seems as good a...
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Those who read Schmidt on Sponti on Monday may be particularly interested in these experiences with spontaneous fermentation in New...
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28 May 2015 We are republishing this article from June 2013 as background to today's tasting article detailing a blind...
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We have long been fans of Kumeu River’s New Zealand Chardonnays, as...
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In response to our many readers who have a stated interest in alternative varieties (the subject of the tasting Julia...
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From NZ$30.05, £15, $29.99 Find this wine It's a confusing time for Chardonnay, as Jancis discussed last month in Struck-match...
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Every year a handful of us wine writers around the world are sent a dozen reds reckoned by my fellow...
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See Sorting through the assortments for a guide to the collections of tasting notes already published and those yet to...
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The New Zealand Cellar is a very welcome arrival to the UK wine scene, doubling the number of online retailers...
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This is a slightly longer version of an article that was also published in the Financial Times. Usually when I...
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