PERU’S NATURAL ABUNDANCE INSPIRED THE INCAS TO WORSHIP THE SOIL AND 16th CENTURY CONQUISTADORS TO PLANT THE FIRST EUROPEAN VINES IN LATIN AMERICA
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Nigel Greening on navigating the tricky waters wine finds itself in, and the problems with ‘fine wine’: where does Felton Road sit?
Back in February 2025 I attended the Pinot Noir 2025 conference in Christchurch, New Zealand. As well as some great
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The new wines from the Marco de Jerez: Sherry and Manzanilla reinvented, by going back to the past
In 2008 Niepoort collaborated with Equipo Navazos to make a special wine: an unfortified flor-aged table wine. This was to
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The wines of Wynns, Coonawarra – interviewing Sue Hodder, chief winemaker of Australia’s leading producers, updated with new release notes (May 2025)
Coonawarra is a celebrated wine region in South Australia, and Wynns are one of the most important players here. It
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Aligoté: how a lesser-known variety from Bourgogne is suddenly hitting the big time, with a bright future ahead of it
Website: https://aligoteurs.wordpress.com/ Tucked away in a wood, in Flagey-Échezeaux – at the heart of the Route des Grands Crus in
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South African Chardonnay: how does it stack up internationally? A tasting with the South African Chardonnay Association in London
Website: https://chardonnayassociationsouthafrica.com/ The Chardonnay Association of South Africa is a re-born organisation with the aim to market Chardonnay internationally, and
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What I really think about scoring wine, and explaining why the scores on this site are in a tight band?
I have a love/hate relationship with wine scores. I use them to give readers an idea of how much I
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Australian Pinot Noir: a tasting of 25 wines, showing how impressive these wines can be
Back in November I attended the Pinot Massif, which is a get-together for winemakers in Australia who are working with
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Does English wine age backwards?
AGED ENGLISH WINES FROM BREAKY BOTTOM, GUSBOURNE & HATTINGLEY DELIGHTED THE TASTE BUDS OF TIME-SERVED TASTERS AT THE LIBÉRATION TARDIVE FOUNDATION ‘TEN YEAR PLUS’ TASTING IN SKINNERS HALL THIS MONTH – SO FRESH WERE THE WINES ONE WAG PRONOUNCED THEM BOOZE BOTOX
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Henschke: tasting the newly released 2021 single vineyard wines with Stephen and Prue Henschke
Website: https://www.henschke.com.au/ It’s the start of vintage when I catch up with Stephen and Prue Henschke to taste through these
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