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Corsica vineyard burned by wildfire 2025- credit Vins de Corse

Wine news in 5 Wildfires burn Aude, Corsica and California, super-light wine bottles, new GI for Argentina

Plus 1,500 alcohol-store closures in China and mining projects in the vineyard lands of New Zealand and Australia. Wildfires burn Southern France and California France is currently experiencing its largest...

Samantha Cole-Johnson Saturday 9 August 2025 • 1 min read

Wine news in 5 Update on Southern Glazer's lawsuit, Blaye becomes Blavia, new wine packaging sizes

Samantha Cole-Johnson Saturday 11 January 2025 • 1 min read

Don't quote me Jancis's diary – December 2024

Jancis Robinson Thursday 2 January 2025 • 1 min read

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Alder on America

The phenomenal rise of canned wine

Alder Yarrow charts the new big thing in wine in the US. We're very pleased to publish a monthly column...

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A husband's lament

Nick wrote this cri de coeur about wine packaging last night, when still furious with two French wine producers. Last...

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On a pink soap box

See this guide for links to all the articles in our 2018 coverage of rosé wines. 19 July 2018 Tam's...

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Bibendum and Errazuriz lighten up

29 March 2018 We are resurrecting this article in our Throwback Thursday series partly because its 10-year-old content is an...

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An unpacker's lament

My life has changed in so many ways since we moved into our brand-new flat on 5 December 2016. The...

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How wine travels nowadays – in bulk

This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times . See also Alder on the...

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Why does wine have to be in a bottle?

Longstanding visitors to this site will know of my campaign against unnecessarily heavy bottles. I'm pleased that there is now...

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Taking the long view

Anyone who takes a long-focus view of the earth can see that we are using up our resources far too...

Tasting articles

Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2009 – reds

See our Guide to 2009 Rhône coverage. There are some lovely wines among the hundreds described below but my tastings...

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A truly magic box

I'm in love. The other day I finally opened a large yellow and red box that had been sent to...

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Daughters of invention

I have long thought that there are several fortunes to be made by enterprising industrial designers prepared to help us...

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Brilliant new packaging?

I have just published my very enthusiastic tasting notes on Chapoutier's 2009 Sélections Parcellaires. Because I was out of the...

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Bottles – glass and plastic compared

Oxidation, oxidation, oxidation. Not a recent UK election slogan modelled on Tony Blair's 2007 priorities for government, 'Education, education, education'...