Domaine Capmartin, naturally made wines from southwest France
Website: Domaine Capmartin, southwest France This is a family winery, now run by Simon Capmartin. His father created the domaine
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Marlborough at 50: a new project to safeguard the vineyard of the future, using accelerated clonal selection
So the Marlborough wine region turns 50 this year. With its continued growth and success, you could forgive the region
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Exploring Greece (1) Parparoussis Winery, Patra
Parparoussis Winery, Patras, Peloponnese Parparoussis Winery, based in Patras in Western Achaia, was founded back in 1974 by Athanasios (Thanassis)
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Island wines: a tasting exploring some stunning low-intervention bottles from Tenerife, Porto Santo, Sicily, Kefalonia, Santorini and Mallorca
What is it about island wines that sets them apart? I know this is a vague question, because islands differ
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Three leading English sparkling wines: Nyetimber, Black Chalk and Rathfinny
Did a compare and contrast with three of the top names in English sparkling wines. These aren’t prestige cuvées, but
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The wines of Bodegas Frontonio, Aragón, Spain
Website: https://www.bodegasfrontonio.com/en/ Fernando Mora was in town presenting the exciting wines of Bodegas Frontonio. An engineer-turned-winemaker, he and his partner
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British Airways lounge raid: better than expected
One of the features of airline travel over the last few years has been the decrease in quality of the
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When we taste wine, how accurate are our perceptions?
How accurate are our assessments? One question keeps coming back to me. When we judge or rate wine as professionals,
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Big news: new genetic evidence shows that the grapevine was domesticated in two locations, and 3000 years earlier than previously thought
Hold the press: Georgia turns out not to be the origin of the wine grapes widely used today. A significant,
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Creation, one of the leading wineries from South Africa’s cool-climate Hemel-en-Aarde region
Website: https://www.creationwines.com/ High up in the Hemel-en-Arde region lies one of South Africa’s top wine estates – one that has
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