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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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Wines of the week

Clos Ouvert, Primavera 2010 Maule

Later that same day - I have just added some more UK stockists. Today's wine of the week is dedicated...

Tasting articles

Clos Ouvert and Envinate – flying light

The trend towards making fresher, more terroir-driven, less 'winemakered' wines continues. It was already evident in practically all regions when...

Tasting articles

De Martino's journey to enlightenment

'Reinventing Chile' is the ambitious statement emblazoned across the De Martino website. In a time when everyone talks about the...

Tasting articles

Chile woos China, proves top Cabs can age

Welcome back to fulltime work with the Christmas and New Year holidays well and truly over. Today I'm publishing the...

Book reviews

2013 books – southern hemisphere

Paul O'Doherty reviews the latest crop of wine books. Wines of the New South Africa – Tradition and Revolution Tim...

Inside information

New guide to Chile – special offer

We publish our autumn collection of reviews of Chilean wine today, all too aware of how dynamic the wine scene...

Tasting articles

Chile – autumn collection

See this guide to all our autumn collections. The nearly 160 wines below are grouped by colour and then in...

Inside information

Argentina, Spain and Reserva – the madness of wine law

I say, I say, I say. What do you get if you cross wine labels, Argentina, Spain and articles 32(1)...

Inside information

Chile rediscovers her old vines

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