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WWC25 – Ode to Romorantin, by Steven Norton
Technology columnist Steven Norton writes this engaging entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about a COVID-era encounter with Romorantin that sparked his love for this French grape variety. For...
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Sunday 10 August 2025
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Wine news in 5
Champagne news, hail hits the Loire, Barossa uproar, RIP Angela Muir MW
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 26 July 2025
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Wine news in 5
Hail and fires in France, Australian organics upset, a Burgundy–UK venture
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 12 July 2025
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From €10.50, $16.99, £14.95 Find this wine Despite being the first French white wine to be given AOC status, Quincy...
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Last Friday was apparently International Sauvignon Blanc Day. Please forgive our rather tardy contribution to the celebrations. If you missed...
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The Loire Valley makes the quintessential springtime wine. So, on the day after the clocks have gone forward to signal...
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Recently retired specialist Loire broker Charles Sydney (pictured here with his wife and colleague Philippa) reports on his experiences of...
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From €16, £21.60, $24.65, 199 Danish krone Find this wine Can't afford 2016 red burgundy? Disillusioned with cru classé bordeaux...
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Chris Hardy of Charles Sydney Wines sends this encouraging interim report on the Loire 2017 vintage. He was unable to...
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That Russian sommeliers are fond of drinking shouldn't be a shock, but I was still surprised to see them gustily...
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From €8.90, £9.99 Find this wine I don’t know about you but I have a very clear vision of my...
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In the invitation to this tasting, the first ever held in London by the Union des Gens de Métier, the...
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The 2016 vintage in the Loire was both blessed and cursed. Blessed by superb quality fruit, but cursed by frost...
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From €8.30, 1,800 Japanese yen, 93 Danish krone, £11, 17 Swiss francs, AU$34.95 Find the Bonnet-Huteau Les Gautronnières 2015 Find...
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From €17.80, $25.75, 2,034 yen, 189.95 Danish krone, £22.75, 269 Norweigan krone, CA$49.90, AU$56 Find the Brut 2010 Find the...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See my full tasting notes on the wines mentioned...
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Purple Pager Thomas De Waen is a massive wine enthusiast, and a particularly proactive one. I searched for 'Waen' in...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See also Can you afford to ignore the Loire...
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From £10 in bond, €17, HK$208 Find the 2015 Find the 2014 Loire Cabernet Franc-based reds – when they’re good...
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