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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Features
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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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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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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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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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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Exploring the Basque coast: Biarritz, San Sebastian, Guéthary and Saint Jean de Luz
I recently spent a weekend on the Basque coast, flying in to Biarritz and staying the night. The following day
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Russian River Valley, Sonoma, California (7) Martinelli
Website: https://martinelliwinery.com/ Martinelli is one of the classic traditional wineries of the Russian River Valley. I visited with Julianna Martinelli,
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Alsace adventure (6) Domaine Kirrenbourg, the new star
Website: https://www.domainekirrenbourg.fr/en Marc Rinaldi, the founder and owner of Domaine Kirrenbourg, has had three lives. Now aged 84, he began
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The amazing wines of Carmelo Peña, Bien de Altura (Gran Canaria) and Jable de Tao (Lanzarote)
Carmelo Peña hails from Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, and he sort of fell into wine the way many
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