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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
Wine news in 5
Protests in France, Domaine Sigalas acquisition, Vinarchy to cull wine brands
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 28 November 2025
• 1 min read
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Free for all
The Antique Wine Company is now inviting bids for a collection of 362 of the best of the 5,000 bottles...
Free for all
Quietly, irrigation has now officially been legalised in France. A decree dated December 6 and published at the end of...
Nick on restaurants
This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. At 11pm on March 14 I...
Inside information
Yesterday I went to a tasting of French wines chosen by my British wine writing peers and found it fascinating...
Inside information
Michel Bettane, France's leading wine writer, and his co-author of the annual Classement des Meilleurs Vins de France Thierry Desseauve...
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With a dramatic swallow of national pride, France’s wine regulators have just authorised the use of oak chips and irrigation...
Don't quote me
Amid France's current spate of introspective navel-gazing about the dire state of the market for French wine both at home...
Inside information
This is the text of a talk given in London this month by Jean-Claude Mas of Les Domaines Paul Mas...
Inside information
It has become quite fashionable for outsiders to invest in French vineyards as I reported earlier in the year with...
Inside information
Very many thanks to Malcolm Compain of London for reminding me via your turn to remind you that this is...
Nick on restaurants
My parents arrived at Ferdinand Point's Pyramide, a world famous staging post on the great drive south, at 11pm one...
Nick on restaurants
Nicholas Lander, an unashamed Francophile, writes an open letter to President Chirac of France over his concerns about the present...
Nick on restaurants
Here are three invaluable rules on how to eat outside when the mistral, the wind which whistles down the Rhône...
Nick on restaurants
The sight of dozens of French families sitting round restaurant tables is not in itself surprising. But in this instance...
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