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New French grape variety, Argentina’s falling exports, UK’s rising wine taxes
Also, Concha y Toro set to purchase Provence estate Mirabeau (shown above); an update on Facebook’s recent recommendation bans and on New Zealand mining projects, and the passing of five...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 7 February 2026
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The map is not the terroir – on Brittany
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Wednesday 4 February 2026
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Tasting articles
Wine discoveries – January 2026
From light, delicate Prosecco to cult wine from Bordeaux and red Zinfandel, there’s something for everyone in these 25 wines. Above, the 1,000-year-old chapel at St-Jacques d’Albas, source of one...
Team JR
Tuesday 3 February 2026
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As Australia's official wine organisations publish a report claiming that the country has a wine surplus equivalent to 75% of...
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I'm pretty inured to the charms of wine books, being lucky enough to be bombarded with them each autumn. But...
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It looks as though the total French 2009 wine crop will be only 48 million hectolitres, 12% more than the...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. Largely unobserved by the rest of...
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We continue our coverage of the challenging 2008 harvest in France with a detailed look at right bank Bordeaux and...
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Over the first eight months of 2008, international exports of French wine decreased by 10% in volume, so perhaps it's...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. In all my unthinkably many years...
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The Antique Wine Company is now inviting bids for a collection of 362 of the best of the 5,000 bottles...
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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...
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Yesterday I went to a tasting of French wines chosen by my British wine writing peers and found it fascinating...
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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...
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Amid France's current spate of introspective navel-gazing about the dire state of the market for French wine both at home...
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This is the text of a talk given in London this month by Jean-Claude Mas of Les Domaines Paul Mas...
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It has become quite fashionable for outsiders to invest in French vineyards as I reported earlier in the year with...
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