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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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Charlotte Fenwick writes, ' A chartered accountant based in Newcastle, I spend too much of my time daydreaming about red...
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' Please find attached my first ever piece of prose. La Roque vineyard belongs to Domaine Jones and covers a...
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Sara Underdown is wine writer specialising in champagne and contributes to a number of print and online publications including Delicious...
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Janice Macdonald introduces her competition entry with, ' When I moved to France eight years ago, I knew nothing about...
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Here is someone who has already achieved glory as a taster in France and an educator in China. He currently...
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Roussillon's old vineyards hold the key to the future. See also yesterday's report on Roussillon's dry red wines.
The heritage...
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Welcome to northern Catalonia. Please set your watches to the time zone not-French-not-Spanish, a hundred years back … and forward...
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We celebrate International Sauvignon Blanc Day today. See also today's wine of the week, a most unusual Sauvignon.
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19 April 2020 The French government have pledged €1bn in aid to frost-hit vignerons. The agriculture minister Julien Denormandie called...
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As these wines are enthusiastically offered by the fine-wine merchants, we try to see through the hype, and include tasting...
Don't quote me
Bordeaux is really getting in the organic, and food-pairing, groove … as a Zoom lunch, and an unusual breakfast, proved...
Alder on America
First various imported European wines under 14%. Now the US extends its 25% tariff to all French and German wines...
Book reviews
29 December 2020 We're republishing free details of these three excellent new books about the world's biggest fine-wine region.
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James Flewellen Infographic Wine Guides
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A second, Académie du Vin Library edition of his autobiography is published today. Lucy Pope took this picture of Steven...
Nick on restaurants
Two weeks in France left Nick open-mouthed in admiration of the French.
Why do eating habits vary so enormously from...
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