The disappearing middle
We see lots of cheap wine, lots of expensive wine, but what’s happened to all those mid-priced wines? One of
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Features
Rosé roundup: tasting and rating a wide selection of pink wines
Rosé is an important wine category, but still it struggles to be taken seriously by wine geeks. But it’s commercially
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Mouchão: lovely wines from this traditional Alentejo winery
Website: https://mouchao.pt/en/ One of the most highly regarded Alentejo wineries, Mouchão has always been a bit different to its peers.
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Books: The New California by Elaine Chukan Brown
Ever since I heard that Elaine Chukan Brown was writing a book on Californian Wine, I was waiting to see
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Mini-Chardonnay study, with a sea bass lunch: Meursault, West Auckland, Hawke’s Bay, Eden Valley
There are so many places making good Chardonnay now, and quite a few regions are achieving greatness with this variety
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MAULE: SMALL-SCALE ETHICAL PRODUCERS KEEP RURAL COMMUNITIES ALIVE WHILST MAKING SOME OF THE MOST EXCITING WINES IN LATIN AMERICA
Time to drink up, says Lisse Garnett.. The UK drinks more Chilean wine than anyone else. Market contractions challenge this
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What the cool kids drink! A dinner at Noble Rot with friends
This was a gathering of 10 friends at Noble Rot, convened by Emily Harman. We all brought a couple of
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Prospects for disease-resistant varieties in Marlborough and elsewhere: will we soon see Cloudy Bay Sauvignon made from a PIWI?
Jim White from Cloudy Bay presented at the 2025 Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference on the topic of disease-resistant grape
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French Bloom, a high-end alcohol-free sparkling wine that’s the most convincing product in this space yet
Website: https://uk.frenchbloom.com/ Non-alcoholic wine is currently a topic of intense interest in the wine industry. Many think that drinking habits
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The wines of Javi Revert, Valencia – a star of the ‘new Spain’ (updated with new notes July 2025)
Valencia is a region in eastern Spain not known for fine wine production, but there is one winegrower – Javi
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