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South African new-wave wines revisited
The first 'Steenwold' blind tasting took place last May in London. Above, the 2015 new-wave tasting booklets were pictured by Richard Bray, who also captured Jancis tasting with Donovan Rall...
Jancis Robinson
Friday 4 July 2025
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Seeking (wine bottle) closure
Fifteen Verget white burgundies like these and 10 more wines were served blind in pairs ... Why? A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See also...
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 28 December 2024
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A rare chance to compare as many as 25 wines with different closures, largely thanks to Jean-Marie Guffens of Verget...
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Which is the better stopper for wine bottles, cork or screwcap? A shorter version of this article is published by...
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After 20 years' devotion to screwcaps in Australia, there are signs of a little push-back.
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Portugal's most famous table wine sees the light of day, at 10 years old.
Barca Velha is such an iconic...
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30 December 2021 See a submission from Flextanks added to the end of this article.
6 March 2021 See a...
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Ramifications of carbon-emission considerations. Glass v the rest. Rail v air. And more.
On Saturday, in Glass dimissed?, I put...
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7 March 2019 We're republishing this 14-year-old article in response to a plea from a fellow Master of Wine, Cassidy...
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If like me you are a bit geeky in your love of wine, you might like to know a bit...
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21 August 2017 See an interesting addition at the bottom of this article. See also More on Diam published today...
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22 June Purple Pager Malcolm Lamont contacted us from Canada to say that ReCORK has a cork collection box at...
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20 October 2016 Questions of bottle variation and resulting score variability are, not surprisingly, a perennial topic on this site...
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18 August 2016 Just look at when the article below was published – almost exactly FIFTEEN YEARS AGO! And how...
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For the background to this Alentejo trip, see The Alentejo on a plate. See also Richard's article on the cork...
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The purest, most gut-wrenching conflicts involve only two opponents. Rarely do spectators remain unmoved in a fight between two. It...
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The cork industry is thrilled to be able to report that 'leading Australian winery' Rusden ' has announced it is...
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'At the level we are, it’s much easier for quality to go down than up', said Paul Pontallier, the general...
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