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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
• 4 min read
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Rhône 2024 – other southern whites, rosés and VDNs
Alistair Cooper MW
Wednesday 10 December 2025
• 11 min read
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Last year, Wines of Hungary put on their annual Furmint February tasting just a couple of weeks before UK lockdown...
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Julia revels in some top-notch biodynamic wines with a German accent, and sorts out those confusing biodynamic organisations.
2 February...
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A mixed bag of sparkling wines including two(!) Bollinger RD 1976s, English fizz and an exceptional Spanish discovery. Above, the...
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It's an ill wind that blows no good. The first of two articles reviewing some seriously fine wines that have...
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Two women presented a second growth to two women – with admirable results.
Julia and I selflessly undertook, in stereo...
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Wines that deserve to be taken notice of, with apologies for grouping so many vibrant and distinctive cultures together. Seen...
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Marvel at what's been going on inland from Dénia on the Costa Blanca.
La Marina Alta is the northernmost area...
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A gap filled, with Tannat.
We try to make our coverage as comprehensive as possible but there has been a...
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Tam's taste buds tangle with an F-35 fighter-jet of a wine. It's exactly 200 years since sherry producer Barbadillo was...
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An under-appreciated and significant resource in Argentine vineyards investigated.
I recently co-hosted an intriguing webinar and tasting for Wines of...
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Want to save the planet …? Seen above, by drone, are Rié and Hirofumi Shoji in their Pedres Blanques vineyard...
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A selection of some of the most exciting table wines in the world, from a region perhaps less threatened by...
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An unusually deep vertical of an Australian classic.
I was last in Margaret River in 2017 for the 50th anniversary...
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In the final instalment of Project Loire (see this guide to the other four articles), we take a quick look...
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It takes time for this obscure Piemontese variety to show Walter what it's made of.
Uvalino is one of those...
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See these previous verticals: Sassicaia 2007 back to 1975, Sassicaia 2010 back to 1985 in magnum, Sassicaia 1999 back to...
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