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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
Plus, wet weather makes California drought-free for the first time in 25 years and leaves snow on Douro vineyards. Much to the delight of Otto, Paul Symington’s dog, above. A...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 30 January 2026
• 1 min read
Wine news in 5
Wildfires in Chile, New Zealand floods, South Africa starts harvest, Prosecco sales strong
Also: the WHO calls for raised alcohol taxes; more tariff drama; Champagne sales decline, and protests continue at Moët Hennessy. Above, fires still rage in South Africa. Photo by David...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 23 January 2026
• 1 min read
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Old age is complicated, for wines as for people. Should old wines that have weathered the chemical interactions of their...
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‘We all have the anti-establishment complex here’, explained Eben Sadie when I asked why none of the Swartland and Paardeberg...
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We continue our African Week with this report on what Julia tasted recently in South Africa. The most striking aspect...
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GS Cabernet 1966 has near-mythical status in South Africa. In this article, originally published in WINE magazine in South Africa...
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American investor Charles A Banks is on the prowl. He has now severed his links with cult Napa Valley winery...
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Vin de Constance’s reputation precedes it: it is the wine lauded by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and Napoleon, the wine...
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Where I live (Sonoma), one must shop long and hard to find a representative sampling of serious South African wines...
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Is what I describe as a ‘burnt rubber’ aroma or flavour in some – mainly less expensive – South African...
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May-Eliane de Lencquesaing was not home when I visited her South African estate, Glenelly, in Stellenbosch last week, though her...
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Linda Murphy sends this report from Cape Town. Part of South Africa’s preparations for hosting the 2010 FIFA World Cup...
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Here are notes on about 80 South African white wines tasted blind last May, in groups by vine variety, for...
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25 Nov 2008 - a first winner has just been announced, a young South African woman. See details here. Hard...
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After pressure from the country’s more fastidious and better educated wine commentators, the South African authorities have finally moved to...
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Below are my notes on 66 wines shown in London recently, supposedly because they were all given either 5 or...
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Tomorrow I will publish some enthusiastic tasting notes on a selection of top South African wines, some of which I...
Wines of the week
Find this wine Here's another, quite different South African wine this week – mainly because the country offers wine lovers...
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