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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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Gavin Quinney of Ch Bauduc in Bordeaux (where this picture of a sparse 2017 crop was taken) sends this report...
Nick on restaurants
France’s borders have been penetrated by Italian food just as effectively as those of the UK, Australia, New Zealand and...
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For links to all of Tam's reviews of wine books published in 2016, see this guide .
19 January 2017...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See my tasting notes.
Almost half of all the...
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See also Co-operative efforts. Life has been tough for France's wine co-operatives recently but a dozen of them have decided...
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Steven Spurrier has been extremely busy this year attending various 40th anniversary re-runs around the world of the famous Judgment...
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A slightly shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. The mainstream press love a wine spat...
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Jancis Robinson has been a Master of Wine since 1984. An honorary doctorate from the Open University added a D...
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The Central Otago Pinot Noir Celebration in New Zealand usually offers delegates – local producers, Pinot-enamoured consumers and journalists alike...
Nick on restaurants
Jancis let me know that my article last Saturday on the particular charms of our holiday spent not eating out...
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Yohan Castaing sends this English summary of the official Ministry of Agriculture report on this year’s grape-growing season in France...
Nick on restaurants
Nine kilometres separate the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in London SW7 from the much newer Collège Français Bilingue de...
Don't quote me
See part 1. The biggest change to Carcassonne's outdoor market in the Place Carnot this summer was immediately obvious. Even...
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Those who read my paean of praise a year ago to the charms of the market in the Place Carnot...
Inside information
As the 2014 harvest kicks off in the Napa Valley, Yohan Castaing and I speculate about the size of the...
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Some Bastille Day thoughts from Nick. Schadenfreude, joy provoked by the misery of others, is not a sentiment many of...
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