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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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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. When I started writing about wine...
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I'm so thrilled to have re-acquainted myself recently with the exciting Savennières appellation, transformed over the last decade or so...
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Wine is worth about €1.2 billion to the producers of the Loire valley. Until last year about 70 million bottles...
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Loire courtier Charles Sydney writes: Chenin and Cabernet Franc started flowering in the Loire Valley last week, and now Sauvignon...
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Noel Pinguet, winemaker at Domaine Huet, the best-known producer of Vouvray, came to show off some of his wines in...
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Charles and Philippa Sydney, courtiers en vins de Loire based in Chinon, sent this enthusiastic preliminary report, written mid Nov...
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See our members' forum for some interesting discussion on this subject. Around this time five years ago, I was sweating...
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Online trading platforms accessible to all are proliferating in the wine market. London fine wine trader Bordeaux Index was the...
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Written by Sarah Ahmed. If Menetou Salon, Quincy and Reuilly are the poor relations of Sancerre and Pouilly Fumé, spare...
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Charles Sydney, courtier en vins de Loire, sends this update to his September vintage report now that he has tasted...
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The wines of the Loire Valley have always seemed to Julia and me to attract much less than their fair...
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Charles Sydney, optimistic wine broker pictured below enthusing over Touraine 2008 grapes, reports from the Loire. I thought a quick...
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See related thread in Members' forum Didier Dagueneau, the wild boy of Pouilly Fumé, has died at a ridiculously early...
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Find this wine I found this wine via an extremely circuitous route. Hugh Johnson asked me en passant whether I...
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Find Boulay's Sancerres outside the UK This week's wine is as much news story as recommendation. American wine lovers have...
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