Videos: Robots in the vineyard, new technology applied
Viticulture is expensive, and a lot of the cost is paying people to do quite boring, repetitive work. Of course,
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Videos
Video: Can an £8 (€9.25, US$10.85) Champagne be any good?
I sit down with my two brother in laws and my nephew to taste a Champagne that was on sale
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Video: Vitibot Bakus, a vineyard robot, in action in Bourgogne
I’ve known about Vitibot Bakus, an autonomous vineyard robot, for a few years, but this week I saw it in
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Video: Champagne Drappier launch Éclose, a new prestige cuvée
Jamie Goode visits Urville in the Aube – the southern outpost of Champagne – where one of the most important
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Porto in pictures, with a short film
Just back from a few days in Porto. While I was there I had a chance to wander around. Some
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Video: Place of Changing Winds, a remarkable vineyard in Australia’s Macedon Ranges wine region
Website: https://www.placeofchangingwinds.com.au/ Jamie Goode visits Rob Walter’s Place of Changing Winds vineyard in the Macedon Ranges wine region, Victoria, Australia.
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Video: Visiting Antiyal, a biodynamic wine estate in Chile’s Alto Maipo, with Alvaro Espinoza
Alvaro Espinoza was the first winegrower to practice biodynamic farming in South America. He consults widely, but with his wife
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Video: the Port harvest in the Douro, 2025, with Taylor’s
Website: https://www.taylor.pt/ 2025 will go down as one of the trickiest vintages of recent years, simply because it was very
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Video: the traditional talha winemaking at José de Sousa in the Alentejo, wine without electricity made in time-honoured fashion
Yesterday one of the wines I included in my Alentejo tasting at an event in Kew Gardens was the talha
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Video: Regenerative approaches at Domaine Lafage, Roussillon: trialling biochar and resistant varieties
I meet with Antoine Lespès and Jean-Marc Lafage to hear about their regenerative approaches. They have been trialling biochar, a
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