Paso Robles: a Californian wine region on the up
The basis of this article is a seminar presented last week in London by Christopher Taranto, who is director of
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Jean-Paul et Charly Thévenet, natural wine stars in Beaujolais
Jean-Paul Thévenet was one of the pioneering band of naturally inclined Beaujolais producers (the gang of four, or sometimes five
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Fifty years of Lytton Springs, the famous Zinfandel-based wine from star California producer Ridge
Website: https://www.ridgewine.com/ The current release of Lytton Springs, the 2022, celebrates 50 years since this single-vineyard wine was first launched
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The wines of Numanthia, from Spain’s Toro wine region: how they’ve tried to shift from the Parker-style to something more expressive of place
Website: https://www.numanthia.com/en-ww Numanthia hit gold with the release of their 2004 Termanthia, which was among a group of five wines
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Whitewolfe Estates: an exciting new Chardonnay-based project in Kent, England
Website: https://whitewolfe-estates.co.uk/ Whitewolfe Estates is a still Chardonnay project founded in 2019 by Clare Whitehead and Luke Wolfe, and the
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The wines of 40 Knots, Vancouver Island, Canada
Website: https://www.40knotswinery.com Vancouver Island is one of Canada’s lesser known wine regions, but it is gaining traction. It hit the
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Château Pavie deep dive, with Jane Anson and João Pires
As part of the Wynn Signature Chinese wine awards 2025 there was a series of seminars, and this was was
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Waking the Sleeping Grape: the birth of the next wine superpower?
Straight from Macau, where I just spent five days judging at the Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards 2025, I caught
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Marselan is turning out to become China’s key grape variety: a seminar with Marselan expert and Chinese resident Julien Boulard
Julien Boulard (pictured above) presented this session on Marselan. He’s a master of wine based in China, and he did
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Ningxia and Xinjiang, China’s two main wine regions, a seminar with Xing Wei
As part of the 2025 Edition of the Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards the judges have some education in the
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