Felton Road: current releases and a retrospective, celebrating 25 years of this important Central Otago producer
It’s easy to forget how recent Central Otago’s progress as a world famous wine region is. When the first blocks
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Features
The wines of Podernuovo a Palazzone, polished gems from the south of Tuscany
Website: https://www.podernuovoapalazzone.com/?lang=en Giovanni Bulgari is part of the Bulgari family, famous for their jewelry business. His family sold to LVMH
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Gusbourne: one of the UK’s leading producers
Website: https://www.gusbourne.com/ Back in 2004 Andrew Weeber planted the first vines of Gusbourne in Appeldore in Kent. The first wines
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Costières de Nîmes, an exciting region in the Rhône, part 1: introduction
Website: https://www.costieres-nimes.org/en/vineyard The most southerly of the Rhône vineyards, Costières de Nîmes is southwest of Avignon, and due south of
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Babette’s Feast: the best ever gastronomy film?
Babette’s Feast: this 1987 Danish-language film adapted from Karen Blixen’s novel is a love story about food and drink. It
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Dry-farmed Chile, the exciting wines of the South (1) VIGNO in Maule
Chile is changing, drafting a new constitution and facing up to the past. Chilean wine has been changing too, adapting
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Blue Frank Think Tank (2) tasting Blaufränkisch from around the world
At the Blaufränkisch symposium in May, we tasted 21 examples of Blaufränkisch from around the world chosen by David Schildenecht
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The wines of Cartuxa, an important producer in Portugal’s Alentejo
Website: Cartuxa One of the famous old table wines of Portugal is Pera Manca, which is made by the Cartuxa
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Old South African wine: raiding the Winshaw cellar back to the 1950s
Bill Winshaw had a collection of South African wine from his time running the Stellenbosch Farmer’s Winery. His grandsons, JP
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Visiting Anthonij Rupert Wyne, L’Ormarins Estate, Franschhoek, South Africa
Website: Anthonij Rupert Wyne Antonij Rupert is the wine project based at L’Ormarins estate on the eastern boundary of Franschhoek,
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