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Floods hit Spain, Portugal, Italy, Monarch Tractor shuttered, early budbreak in California
Plus, a trade deal for China and South Africa, falling French wine and spirits exports, a legal case in Australia, and congratulations to Andrew Jefford, awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 14 February 2026
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Wine discoveries – January 2026
From light, delicate Prosecco to cult wine from Bordeaux and red Zinfandel, there’s something for everyone in these 25 wines. Above, the 1,000-year-old chapel at St-Jacques d’Albas, source of one...
Team JR
Tuesday 3 February 2026
• 2 min read
Wine news in 5
Strengthening US wine labelling, new EU trade deals, market reports, more bottles lighten up
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 30 January 2026
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Five years ago Kathy Jordan of Jordan Wine Estate in Stellenbosch (pictured here) launched a two-fold wine mentoring programme aimed...
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Psychiatrist Olga Antoniadou was a popular, highly commended entrant in our recent wine writing competition. Here she profiles a hero...
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Jancis writes Young Shi is my representative in China and, as a hard-working MW student, commutes between the UK, Shanghai...
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Martin Day, our 25th writing-competition entrant, began his journey into wine in 1996 when, as a 22 year old, he...
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From €13.90, £14.95 Find this wine Yes, yet another South African white as a wine of the week. And why...
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From ZAR80, £12.50 (or £65 per case of 6), $15 Find this wine I did a double take when I...
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9 November We have just heard from the organisers of this worthwhile initiative. Christie van der Heijden of PIWOSA reports...
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See also Richard on South African Shiraz and Syrah, and our South African assemblage republished free today. In February, Erica...
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13 October 2016 To underpin Tam’s laudatory report today on South African Chenin we are republishing as part of our...
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Our exchange rate may be unfavourable and our overall consumption may be falling, but there still seem to be plenty...
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From £8.99 There are just so many bargains from South Africa and this is one of them – from the...
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If anyone ever doubted Michel Rolland’s charm factor, consider this: South African wine’s bad boy, André ‘I don’t spit’ van...
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Attendance rates at professional wine tastings in London can be shockingly low, so spoilt for choice are those of us...
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From £12 Find this wine I don’t know about you but the wines I value above all others are those...
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23 June 2017 Four of these Zim Somms are now heading to the World Wine Tasting Championships in Burgundy in...
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From 157.90 rand, HK$140, $19.75, €18.70, 189 Swedish krone, £18.95, CA$33.25, 25.06 Swiss francs, 3,369 Japanese yen, SG$45.50 Find these...
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