The Symington Vintage Port Day: celebrating the pinnacle from the Douro, looking at 2022, 2003, 1985 and 1963
Vintage Port is the pinnacle wine of the Douro. Made from top vineyard sites in the best years, it is
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Russian River Valley, Sonoma, California (8) Iron Horse
Website: https://www.ironhorsevineyards.com/ Joy Sterling is making some of the USA’s best sparkling wines at Iron Horse, a winery founded by
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Highlights: Bourdy Côtes de Jura 2020
Caves Jean Bourdy is a long-established domaine in Jura (dating back to 1579), farmed biodynamically since 2006, with 10 hectares
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Ed Carr and House of Arras, exciting sparkling wines from Tasmania
Website: https://houseofarras.com.au/ The sparkling wine conversation has been dominated by Champagne for so long, but now this is changing. Other
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Highlights: Champagne Collard-Picard Perpetuelle 12 Années NV
Website: https://www.champagnecollardpicard.fr/ Champagne Collard-Picard Perpetuelle 12 Années NV FranceThis is a really lovely wine, and it’s also quite a technical
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New releases (2022) from Nicolas-Jay, now one of Oregon’s very best wineries
Jamie Goode tastes latest releases from Jay Boberg and Jean-Nicolas Meo of Nicolas-Jay, a winery who has, in a very
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Highlights: Jansz Tasmania Premium Cuvée NV
I remember when I first started out in wine buying quite a bit of Aussie fizz – Seppelts Great Western
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Electric Styria: a tasting and discussion about this exciting wine region
Websites: https://www.wachstumkoenig.at/ *** https://www.neumeister.cc/en/ *** https://www.vinogross.com/ One of the exciting wine stories in recent years is the emergence of a
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Video: Martinelli’s Jackass vineyard, planted before 1889, and one of California’s oldest
This short film was taken in July when I visited the Jackass vineyard and Jackass Hill vineyard (right next door)
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Russian River Valley, Sonoma, California (8) De Loach Vineyards
Website: https://deloachvineyards.com/ Originally started in 1975 by Cecil De Loach, De Loach was one of the first post-prohibition wineries in
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