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The greatest-ever champagne vintage?
A comparative tasting of champagne from the highly acclaimed 1996 vintage and the overshadowed 1995. And a daring way to remove a recalcitrant champagne cork. Was 1996 the greatest-ever champagne...
Andy Howard MW
Monday 15 December 2025
• 4 min read
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For British wine lovers charity begins at home – drink English wine this weekend and raise money for The Drinks...
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A mixed bag of sparkling wines including two(!) Bollinger RD 1976s, English fizz and an exceptional Spanish discovery. Above, the...
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In the final instalment of Project Loire (see this guide to the other four articles), we take a quick look...
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… plus three English offerings, with Valentine's Day in prospect.
Yes, pink champagne is a cliché. But, as a champagne...
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See Cava becomes geographically specific. Here’s a tasting that augurs well for Spain’s troubled but most famous sparkling wine. Above...
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Zones, subzones, new categories, but probably not until 2022. We'll be publishing Ferran's tasting notes on some of his favourite...
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A version of this article, an annual fixture, is published by the Financial Times. Matt Martin took this picture of...
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This is no time to desert the magic combination of wine and carbon dioxide. We present dozens of examples, and...
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A challenge for English sparkling wine reprised.
Five years ago I took part in a blind comparison of six English...
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The latest entry to our sustainability heroes writing competition comes from a Russian sommelier in Bordeaux, who takes us south...
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Confined to Singapore by pandemic restrictions (and, therefore, unable to undertake his usual autumn tour of the Rhône), is Richard...
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Mauzac sparkles in the hills of Limoux.
From €10.80, £10.95, CA$19, 2,420 Japanese yen, 155 Brazilian reais
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Tam introduces us to tasting notes on over 100 fashionable pink wines, and also provides many of them, notably those...
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A crazy, semi-sparkling, off-dry orange wine from the mountains of Greece confounds and delights.
€6.60, $13.99, 139 Swedish kronor, 115...
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Ferran untangles the turbulent recent history of Catalan sparkling wine. His tasting notes on wines from this new group of...
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Ferran tastes the sparkling wines of this new Catalan group. See also Introducing Corpinnat – a complex tale. Recaredo's cellar...
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