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Wine news in 5 New French grape variety, Argentina's falling exports, UK's rising wine taxes

Plus updates on Facebook’s recommendation bans and New Zealand mining projects, and the passing of five influential wine-industry figures. Also, Concha y Toro set to take a majority stake in...

Samantha Cole-Johnson Saturday 7 February 2026 • 1 min read

Wine news in 5 Wildfires in Chile, New Zealand floods, South Africa starts harvest, Prosecco sales strong

Also: the WHO calls for raised alcohol taxes; more tariff drama; Champagne sales decline, and protests continue at Moët Hennessy. Above, fires still rage in South Africa. Photo by David...

Samantha Cole-Johnson Friday 23 January 2026 • 1 min read

Wine news in 5 Fires in South Africa, Australia and Argentina, FB bans, state of the US wine industry report

Samantha Cole-Johnson Friday 16 January 2026 • 1 min read

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Chile's first classic – a retrospective

See also Richard on why Chile isn't boring. They say that Don Melchor is foremost amongst Chilean wines. They also...

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Trench warfare in Chile

Until recently, I had always viewed Chilean wine as a bit like vacuum-packed pasta: dependable and functional but hardly exciting...

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Brian Croser and Santa Rita

Australians may be surprised to learn that such a senior figure in their wine industry as Brian Croser has accepted...

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100 Chileans of note

I am struck, tasting some of the more striking current offerings from Chile, by how very fluid the wine landscape...

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Castillo de Molina, Reserva Sauvignon Blanc 2009 Elqui Valley

From £5.99/£7.99 Find Casa Marin, Cipreses Sauvignon Blanc 2008 I went to the annual Chilean tasting in London a couple...

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Does Chile make decent Pinot?

(Those of you who feel that, what with this and our recent tasting notes on German Pinot Noirs, we are...

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Two great Chilean Sauvignons

From £3.79, $14.99 and €12.52 Find the Fournier In hot, humid weather, what could be more agreeable than a really...

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Bordeaux v Rest of the World

This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. The surprisingly good quality of the...

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Errázuriz v The Rest, and The Reds

Last night Eduardo Chadwick of Viña Errázuriz in Chile staged his so-called ‘Berlin tasting’ for the eighth time, and the...

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Linda on Chile

I couldn’t resist an occasional glance at René Merino, president of Wines of Chile, during the sixth annual Wines of...

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Winning Chilean has US connection

Later that same day: See full list of trophy winners below. Ever the conscientious reporter, our West Coast editor Linda...

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Chile claws into Argentina

Agricultural engineer and founder of AndesWines.com, the first bilingual South American wine site, Maximiliano Morales, sends this report. The Argentine...