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The greatest-ever champagne vintage?
A comparative tasting of champagne from the highly acclaimed 1996 vintage and the overshadowed 1995. And a daring way to remove a recalcitrant champagne cork. Was 1996 the greatest-ever champagne...
Andy Howard MW
Monday 15 December 2025
• 4 min read
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Sparkling wines for the 2025 festive season
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 22 November 2025
• 2 min read
Wine news in 5
Champagne’s first Voltis harvest, tariff effects, ancient Turkish wine facility unearthed
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 1 November 2025
• 1 min read
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Tim Hall reports on the latest edition of this annual showtime for Champagne’s grower-producers and highlights three particularly impressive producers...
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Champagne specialist and wine educator Tim Hall, who will soon be reporting on this year's week of tastings in Champagne...
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A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times.
For years champagne ran the most sophisticated and...
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Suppose you owned the world’s biggest luxury goods company, comprising a host of competing brands. (Yeah, dream on.) To what...
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Most people are prepared to pay a premium for champagne, whether or not they understand the reasons for that premium...
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Our 23rd published entrant into last year's wine writing competition is James Dowdeswell, who says:
I am an award winning...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See also Krug Grandes Cuvées compared blind.
A common...
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See also today's Throwback Thursday, Fizz and fortified – more information please. What could be more agreeable than a blind...
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9 February 2017 This week’s Throwback Thursday – Jancis’s appeal for greater transparency from the producers of non-vintage wines –...
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We're publishing just one of the two articles submitted by candidate number 16 in our wine writing competition as we...
Book reviews
Tam continues her series reviewing wine (and distilled wine) books published this year. For links to all her reviews, see...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Blind tasting is extremely educational, but has a nasty...
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See also 2002 champagnes and other fizzes. One thing I find very difficult, as really astute visitors to this website...
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See also today's Throwback Thursday article on Bottle, and magnum, variation. Sir Winston Churchill first met Odette Pol-Roger at a...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See these tasting notes on 2006 and 1996 prestige...
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14 July 2016 To complement all our articles about sparkling wines and champagnes this week, and as a rather cheekily...
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