2016, looking back a decade from 2026
2016 was quite a year for me. A transition year with a lot of travel.
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A brilliant wine dinner with friends at the Drapers Arms, with 15 interesting wines
This was a brilliant wine dinner with a nice crowd, at the excellent Drapers Arms. We all brought a couple
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2025, a wine year in pictures
Here’s a selection of pictures from 2025. Quite a year.
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Launched today: Regenerative Viticulture, Second Edition
Anyone who has written a book knows the amount of planning, researching, thought and effort that goes into bringing it
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At Staffelter Hof in the Mosel, Jan-Matthias Klein has taken a bet on resistant varieties, vitisforestry and natural wine, and it’s working out
As part of the Porto Protocol Living Vineyards tour 2025, I visited Staffelter Hof, a winery looking to produce a
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Sifnos: a gastronomic journey through the coolest Greek island that you probably haven’t heard of
In his book The Greek House: the story of a painter’s love affair with the island of Sifnos, Christian Brechneff
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Visiting the Macedon Ranges, a cool-climate Australian wine region making some exciting wines (1) introduction
Website: https://www.macedonrangeswine.com.au/ Macedon Ranges is a small, cool-climate region in Victoria, about an hour’s drive north of Melbourne. At altitudes
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Australian Chardonnay: a deep dive into this exciting category
We are so familiar with Chardonnay as an important part of Australia’s wine offering that it’s surprising to learn that
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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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