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Blind tasting, part 4 – taste
How to evaluate everything you feel and taste in a sip of wine. Last week’s MBT article focused on evaluating a wine’s ‘nose’ – ie the presence and intensity of...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Thursday 5 March 2026
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Mission Blind Tasting
Blind tasting, part 3 – using your nose
The power of scent, and how to harness it to figure out what’s in your glass. In last week’s MBT, we focused on gathering visual clues. Today we’ll dig into...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Thursday 26 February 2026
• 1 min read
Mission Blind Tasting
Blind tasting, part 2 – gathering visual clues
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Thursday 19 February 2026
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While Jancis wasn't able to make it to the annual Oxbridge blind-tasting match, our assistant editor Julian Leidy reports from...
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AI is today's buzzword, or at least buzz expression. To what extent will it affect our world of wine? A...
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Behind the scenes at one of Australia's most desirable wine shows.
Australia's wine shows are the bellwethers of the country's...
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16 June 2023 Last chance to book a ticket to tonight's online encounter in aid of restoring Beaumont Parish Hall...
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Gwendolyn Alley, winner of the WWC 23 judges' mentorship prize, takes part in an amicable showdown between Paso Robles and...
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Five books for learners. From amateurs to MWs, these books address learning from every angle, some more successfully than others...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times.
If proof were needed that wine is a subjective...
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Why not diversity in tasting notes too? A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times.
In...
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2 December 2021 Because so many people seem to be suffering post-COVID-19 anosmia, or are just finding that their sense...
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Tom Parker MW, whose day job is at Farr Vintners, reports on lockdown's beneficial effect on his wine tasting. The...
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Matthew Hayes, our man in Burgundy and MW student, takes a second look at Beyond Flavour by Nick Jackson MW...
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Is wine vocabulary too Eurocentric? A version of this article is published by the Financial Times.
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