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Floods hit Spain, Portugal, Italy, Monarch Tractor shuttered, early budbreak in California
Plus, a trade deal for China and South Africa, falling French wine and spirits exports, a legal case in Australia, and congratulations to Andrew Jefford, awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 14 February 2026
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Nick on restaurants
When the world likes to eat out
Nick reports on a global dining trend. Above, diners at Hawksmoor in London. My frequent conversations with our restaurateur son invariably reveal to me the enormous changes that have taken...
Nick Lander
Sunday 8 February 2026
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Wine news in 5
Strengthening US wine labelling, new EU trade deals, market reports, more bottles lighten up
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 30 January 2026
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It’s a sign of the times that the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation’s information arm, until recently more used to...
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I tasted these 64 Australian white wines blind last March when they had been submitted as candidates for British Airways...
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I recently asked a close observer of the Australian wine scene what the current hot topics are there and here...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. I sat with two Australian winemakers...
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In July 2007, an amazing medical breakthrough was announced. It concerned an American man who had been in a constant...
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Latest figures for Australian wine exports, for the year ended April 2008, make gloomy reading for an industry predicated on...
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The moon is credited with influencing many things. Werewolves, for instance, which like all forms of inter-species transmogrification is rather...
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As reported in Australia changes its focus, the Australian wine industry is keenly aware that it needs to brush up...
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Like many wine aficionados, I am perpetually intrigued by esoteric blends. They may never infiltrate the likes of Bordeaux, but...
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Keith Mugford of the prime Margaret River producer Moss Wood replies at length to some of my recent observations about...
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Last week we published The New Australia – 250 tasting notes, a collection of notes on many of the wines...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See also The New Australia –...
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See also my overview Australia changes its focus, Australian Rieslings and Australian Semillons .
Below are tasting notes on about...
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Find the tawny The Australians are devilishly versatile, as last week's marathon Australian tasting in London proved. They may have...
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Leading Australian wine auctioneers Langton’s have just released their Top 500 List of Australia’s highest wine auction prices compiled from...
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