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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
• 2 min read
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Sparkling wines for the 2025 festive season
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 22 November 2025
• 1 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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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. For many wine lovers, especially those...
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See my tasting notes on a sumptuous vertical of vintages back to 1979 but what’s the story of how this...
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Here are my notes from the sumptuous tasting for which the fascinating background can be found in inside information. I...
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Rémi Krug (RK in the notes below) presented these vintages in London in late Jan 2007 on the eve of...
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Rémi Krug (RK in the notes below) presented these vintages in London in late Jan 2007 on the eve of...
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If you’re thinking of laying in any of LVMH’s grandest champagnes, any sort of Krug or Dom Pérignon, buy it...
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Quite a coup for Dr Stephen Charters MW (49) who has just been hired as the inaugural Professor of Champagne...
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This report from the Luxury Institute ( www.luxuryinstitute.com ) is just in, and making interesting reading in view of my...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. Just like still wine, sparkling wine...
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These notes are all as taken while I was blind tasting a range of 19 de luxe champagnes and six...
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One of my many pet hobby horses is how much more mature I generally find the champagnes in the US...
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Below are my tasting notes in full on the 70 vintage champagnes tasted in the tasting described in fine wine...
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Is it outrageous to observe that today consumption is more conspicuous in Britain than in any other comparable country? I...
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I love any chance to assess the real merits of non vintage champagnes without the distraction of all the imagery...
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