The best wines from Franschhoek
Jamie Goode and Treve Ring choose their favourite WO Franschhoek wines During our week in the Franschhoek region we met
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Features
Bordeaux 2017: the whites
Notes on 13 white Bordeaux wines from the 2017 vintage This was a nice chance to look at the 2017
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Dom Maxwell of Greystone, the vineyard ferment guy
Jamie Goode catches up with Dom Maxwell, winemaker at Greystone in New Zealand’s Waipara wine region, to taste his wines
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Germany’s diversity in eight wines
A quick tasting of eight different German wines showing some of the diversity of this country’s wine scene Sander Cosmic
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Leithaberg: wines from a distinctive Austrian DAC
The Leithaberg DAC is a relatively new one. Part of Austria’s Burgenland region, it makes some very smart wines from
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The Gimblett Gravels 2017 reds selection
2017 was a tricky vintage in the Hawke’s Bay wine region. How did the red wines from the famed Gimblett
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Applying a model of vineyard variability in the vineyards of Trentino, with Cavit
Jamie Goode travels to the scenic Trentino region in Italy. Here, leading producer Cavit have developed an exciting technology called
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The judgment of BC, 2019
How well do the wines from Canada’s British Columbia do when they are tasted blind alongside some international benchmarks? Jamie
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The birdwatcher’s jizz, and its relevance to wine tasting
Back in 1921, Thomas A. Coward, an ornithologist, introduced a new term to the bird watching world: jizz. Coward had
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Ripeness, part 3: solutions to over-ripeness and high alcohol
Part 3 of 3 in a series focusing on the thorny issue of ripeness Some winegrowers pick late because they
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