Wine news in 5 French vine-pulls and Spanish subsidies, wildfires in Portugal, an electric furnace for bottles Also, a new crop of Taylor’s Port Golden Vines Diversity Scholars. Above... 28 Sep 2024 Samantha Cole-Johnson
Wine news in 5 Ontario strike intensifies, hail hits Bordeaux, California fires, EU vine-pulls, spirits sales strong Plus a plea to abandon the wasteful wine capsule and news of... 13 Jul 2024 Samantha Cole-Johnson
Wine news in 5 Hail and wildfires, world's oldest wine discovered, Bordeaux's weak en primeur campaign And the identities of the wines poured for the notoriously difficult Master... 22 Jun 2024 Samantha Cole-Johnson
Wine news in 5 Accolade update, Tesco's sustainability pledge, Oregon wildfire lawsuits Plus the first viable, scalable, wine-bottle reuse company in the Americas. The... 1 Jun 2024 Samantha Cole-Johnson
Wine news in 5 Chilean wildfires, Canadian cold snap, and EU pesticide proposals scrapped But there's good news, too: Jancis is honoured with the Lifetime Achievement... 13 Feb 2024 Samantha Cole-Johnson
Wine news in 5 Naked Wines, alcohol taxes and Oregon wildfires While wine goes on deep discount at Naked Wines, the Netherlands jacks... 9 Jan 2024 Samantha Cole-Johnson
Free for all Okanagan Valley on fire British Columbia, in western Canada, has had its worst wildfire season on... 21 Aug 2023 Guest contributor
Free for all WWC23 – Leo Erazo, by Jimmy Boldt In this moving 2023 wine writing competition entry, aspiring winemaker Jimmy Boldt... 13 Jul 2023 Guest contributor
Tasting articles Napa's controversial 2020 reds 10 May 2023 Now with tasting notes for Opus One and Vine... 26 Apr 2023 Jancis Robinson
Free for all Itata on fire I visited the southern winegrowing regions of Chile in October 2022 and... 14 Feb 2023 Alistair Cooper MW
Tasting articles Entre-Deux-Mers – Bordeaux's Cinderella? Life was surprisingly tough for those on the fringes of Bordeaux, even... 26 Jul 2022 Jancis Robinson
Tasting articles Napa's 2020 whites The valley's white wines largely escaped the effects of 2020 wildfires. In... 2 Jun 2022 Elaine Chukan Brown
Inside information Harlan makes a change A Napa Valley leader makes quite a radical adjustment. In spring of... 18 May 2022 Elaine Chukan Brown
Inside information Napa's 2020s – sorting needed Napa's reds from the controversial 2020 vintage will be rare, but those... 29 Mar 2022 Elaine Chukan Brown
Alder on America Smoke taint – US lawyers' view Last year's California wine production was severely shrunk by the effects of... 13 Sep 2021 Alder Yarrow
Inside information Smoke taint – the view from Oregon Samantha visited 38 producers recently, and could hardly overlook the smoky elephant... 8 Sep 2021 Samantha Cole-Johnson
