Hugh Johnson: ‘We’re getting bolder with bubbles from Italy, Spain, Australia, NZ, the Cape…’
Moving away from Champagne...
Guest Column
View opinions on wine news, wine tastings and wine issues from Decanter guest columnists
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The ethical drinker: How the understated Loire became an environmental pioneer
Could this be the sustainability example wine regions need?
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Ned Goodwin MW: ‘Later-ripening Syrah represents an exciting new frontier for Tasmania as the climate warms’
The changing face of Tasmanian wine...
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Amber Gardner: ‘We are seeing a shift back towards the known, the familiar and, ultimately, the comforting’
A return to 'well-trodden paths'...
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Katherine Cole: ‘Is the real question whether wine regions could shield the rest of us from wildfires?’
Katherine Cole on handling wildfires...
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Joel Stein: ‘The more the person knows about wine, the more obscure your gift needs to be’
It should make the receiver think, ‘Oh, I didn’t even know this existed’...
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Jason Millar: The idea of terroir is sacred, but is it helping us to communicate what truly matters?
'How many people walk into a shop asking for wines grown on alluvial marls..?'
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The food is fine, but what about the wine? A critique of the restaurant critic
The wine is fine too...
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Hugh Johnson: ‘I feel solidarity with the courageous growers who stake so much on challenging the English weather’
Flying the flag for English fizz...
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Cristina Mercuri: Wines on the edge – How Etna is redefining elegance
'On the edge of a new Italian wine identity...'
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Dariusz Galasiński: ‘Is wine a message that extends beyond its agricultural site?’
The relationship between wine and culture...
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Laura Taylor: ‘We need to change the wine-collecting rhetoric’
Where are all the women wine collectors..?
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Katherine Cole: When wine met tariffs, history rarely went according to plan
Katherine Cole on wine tariffs...
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Joel Stein: ‘Show up to that dinner with a 3-litre of anything and you are Dionysus’
What size bottle should you take to a dinner party...
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Roger Jones: ‘Recent experiences have reignited my enthusiasm for NZ Sauvignon’
Roger Jones with a guest column on this iconic category...
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Hugh Johnson: ‘Labels, of course, play the key role’
Hugh Jonhson on wine's 'real worth'...
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Katherine Cole: ‘The surest way to ensure wine’s demise is to politicise it’
Mixing politics and wine? Katherine Cole comments...
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Victoria Moore: ‘We’re more sensitive to certain odours when hungry’
Exploring your senses when wine tasting...
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The failure of the Surgeon General: Eliza Dumais on the irrelevance of warning labels
Eliza Dumais is dubious about the impact of warning labels on alcohol...
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Dariusz Galasiński: ‘The amateur wine lover sees wine as a source of experience’
How do you define your wine..?
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Katherine Cole: ‘I have had it with stemware – enough already’
The trouble with too much stemware...
