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The greatest-ever champagne vintage?
A comparative tasting of champagne from the highly acclaimed 1996 vintage and the overshadowed 1995. And a daring way to remove a recalcitrant champagne cork. Was 1996 the greatest-ever champagne...
Andy Howard MW
Monday 15 December 2025
• 2 min read
Wine news in 5
Protests in France, Domaine Sigalas acquisition, Vinarchy to cull wine brands
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 28 November 2025
• 1 min read
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As long predicted, the US overtook France to become the world's biggest consumer of wine last year, a year in...
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Update 30 Sep pm – Apparently the website cited below enjoyed 150,000 visits last weekend – JR. Yohan Castaing writes...
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Written by Monty Waldin. See our guide to this week's comprehensive stocktake on the extent of organic and biodynamic viticulture...
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Yohan Castaing writes: ' Serve them good wine, they will make good laws', said Michel de Montaigne, one of the...
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Written in conjunction with Yohan Castaing. In a terse press release at the end of last week, the French Ministries...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See full list and my tasting...
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Yohan Castaing writes: Most French vineyards are developing much later than they were in 2011, which was admittedly an exceptionally...
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This article was also published in the Financial Times. François Simon, France's least recognised but most respected and most feared...
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I had breakfast with the French Minister of Agriculture yesterday, the way you do. Actually, it was a breakfast meeting...
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As Australia's official wine organisations publish a report claiming that the country has a wine surplus equivalent to 75% of...
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I'm pretty inured to the charms of wine books, being lucky enough to be bombarded with them each autumn. But...
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It looks as though the total French 2009 wine crop will be only 48 million hectolitres, 12% more than the...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. Largely unobserved by the rest of...
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We continue our coverage of the challenging 2008 harvest in France with a detailed look at right bank Bordeaux and...
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Over the first eight months of 2008, international exports of French wine decreased by 10% in volume, so perhaps it's...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. In all my unthinkably many years...
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