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The Jancis Robinson Story, episode 6 – maturing
The penultimate episode of a seven-part podcast series giving the definitive story of Jancis’s life and career so far. For the rest of the series, click here. This episode is...
Richard Hemming MW
Sunday 14 December 2025
• 29 min read
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From iron ore to flor in South Africa's wild west
On South Africa’s remote West Coast an unlikely fortified-wine revival is taking place. Malu Lambert reports. Saldanha’s castle is an improbable one. As you stream into the West Coast outpost...
Guest contributor
Thursday 11 December 2025
• 1 min read
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Matching wine with Asian food, part 4 – floral/fragrant and citric
Richard Hemming MW
Thursday 11 December 2025
• 1 min read
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Reviewing the entry in The Oxford Companion to Wine on microchâteaux recently, I asked some London fine wine traders for...
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The coagulation of the Australian wine industry continues apace with Rathbone, the company that now owns Yering Station in the...
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This is just in from Fine & Rare Wines of London. It’s just one trader’s experience but I thought it...
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Australia’s most established maker of investment quality red wine is, for the first time, offering futures - in two very...
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Purple pager David Morgan wrote yesterday (see below) to ask whether screwcapped bottles should be stored upright or horizontal. I...
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It's amazing how widespread are the effects on the internet. Now that Berry Bros have such a skilful online retail...
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French biochemist Gérard Michel must be pleased with the amount of publicity his new TCA-removing kit, Dream Taste, has already...
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Steven Tolliver who writes a blog about Spanish wine called Tempranillo (I impishly suggest it should be called Garnacha of...
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Julia Harding MW, currently hard at work on the viti and vini entries to be published in the 3rd edition...
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Dr John Parr of Cheltenham asks what happened in the most recent Wines of Chile Awards and whether any new...
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