Burgundy 2021: a snapshot of the vintage through the wines of nine producers
Time to taste cask samples of the 2021 vintage in Burgundy. It was a much talked about vintage because of
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Regions
Highlights: Pícaro del Aguilar Clarete Vinhas Velhas 2016 Ribera del Duero, Spain
This is a really intriguing wine that I’ve fallen in love with, and which I buy. It’s the in-between land
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Highlights: Adega do Vulcão Ameixâmbar Arinto de Açores 2018 Portugal
Adega do Vulcão Ameixâmbar Arinto de Açores 2018 Portugal13% alcohol. This is the special Azores variety named Arinto that’s different
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The wines of Raúl Pérez, Bierzo, Spain
Raúl Pérez is one of the key figures in ‘New Spain’. Based in Bierzo in northwest Spain, he first made
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New releases from Tillingham, one of the UK’s most interesting wineries, plus a look at the 2022s in the winery
At the end of November I joined a nice crowd of wine trade people to visit Tillingham winery in Sussex
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Highlights: Champagne Lallier Réflexion R.019
Website: https://champagne-lallier.com/en/ Lallier recently became the first Italian-owned Champagne house when they were bought by Campari. They also hired Dominique
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Herdade do Rocim and friends: the wines of Pedro Ribeiro
Website: https://rocim.pt/en/ With the wines of Herdade do Rocim and his own project Bojador, as well as a string of
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Memorable Champagnes of 2022
Treve Ring and Jamie Goode pick their memorable Champagnes of 2022. First up, it’s Ring’s selections, and then Goode’s. It
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Vin de Constance 2018 – the new release of this famous sweet wine
Back in the 1980s South African winery Klein Constantia revived a piece of vinous history. In the 18th and 19th
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The Lisboa wine region, Portugal: a mini-study with six wines
There are not many wine regions that change their name, and make a success of it. But one Portuguese wine
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