The wines of Château Ksara, Lebanon
Website: https://chateauksara.com/ Lebanon is making some pretty interesting wines at the moment. As well as old favourite Musar, there’s the
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Profiles
Visiting Emiliana, an important organic Chilean winery
Website: https://www.emiliana.cl/en/ Emiliana is an important winery for Chile. I visited with winemaker Noelia Orts (pictured above) in the Los
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Judith Beck is making some impressive natural wines in Austria’s Burgenland
Website: https://www.weingut-beck.at/ Judith Beck farms 15 hectares of vines in Gols, in the Burgenland. Farming has been biodynamic since 2007,
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Bianka and Daniel Schmitt, making impressive natural wines in Rheinhessen, Germany
Website: https://biankaunddaniel.de/ I tasted these wines with Bianka Schmitt at the VinNatur festival in Paris, November 2025. The winery has
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Domínio Do Açor, an exciting new producer from Dão, Portugal
Website: https://dominiodoacor.com/en/ Domínio do Açor is a relatively new project in the Dão region, and it’s already in the peer
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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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New releases from Radford Dale, South Africa: the over-delivering Vinum wines, plus their new organic wines
Radford Dale are producing some very smart wines at the moment. They are getting the style right (aiming for freshness
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THE STORY OF MADEIRA
Enthrallingly versatile, everlasting and bomb proof – Madeira is the perfect sup for our uncertain times says Lisse Garnett 400
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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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Visiting Folias de Baco, a Douro winery making compelling natural wines under the Uivo brand (updated June 2025)
Website: https://www.foliasdebaco.com/ Tiago Sampaio is making some of the Douro’s most interesting natural wines under the Uivo brand. His winery
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