Decanter Staff

DR3 x St Hugo collaboration: Wines of outstanding quality

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A perfect pairing: Hawksmoor's Tamworth belly ribs

The most popular starter at London steakhouse chain Hawksmoor is a great summer dish to recreate at home.

Ferruccio Deiana Wines: Sardinia Ambassador

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10 facts about Spanish wine for budding sommeliers

From key points in history to regions, grape varieties and inspirational wine lists, here’s our quick guide to Spain for somms in training.

Spanish Wine Academy Quiz: Round One - Geography

Do you know your Spanish DOs?

Philipponnat releases 1522 Champagne collection

Promotional feature. For almost 500 years, the Philipponnat family have been leaving their mark on the Champagne region.

Great Vermentino from Sardinia

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How to choose quality wine online: Four top tips from Independent Wine

Promotional feature. By May 2021, 27% of all retail took place online – a whopping 10% growth from pre-pandemic 2019, according to the Office for National Statistics. With retail moving online so quickly, what does it mean for discerning wine drinkers looking for quality over quantity?

Plaimont - Championing Gascony’s rich varietal diversity of grapes and innovative winemaking styles

Promotion. Few parts of wine-growing France can match the intrigue and diversity of the Pyrenean foothills. It’s a region which combines relatively low latitudes (warmth and generous light), rumpled relief and altitude (for freshness and cool nights) and generous rainfall (drought spells are rare here).

T-OINOS: Capturing the mystical energy of the Cyclades

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At home with Decanter’s editor-in-chief, Chris Maillard

In partnership with The Platinum Card® from American Express

Lake Garda and Garda DOC

Promotional feature. Italy’s largest lake, Garda, enjoys a Mediterranean climate and is caressed by myriad winds. Its vineyards are bathed in light bouncing off the water’s surface. Gently sunkissed bunches of grapes ripen in favourable conditions where balmy temperatures allow olive trees, lemons, and capers to thrive.

Château La Commanderie – a historic revival in Pomerol 

Promotional feature. It’s not every day that prized six-hectare estates come up for sale in Bordeaux’s famed Pomerol appellation, but after two years of searching for the perfect terroir following a honeymoon across France, young couple Melody and Andrew Kuk knew they had found a ‘diamond in the rough’ with Château La Commanderie. 

10 things you should know about Rioja

Promotional feature. From the grape varieties and sub-regions to classifications and celebrations, here’s our quick guide to the famous northern Spanish wine region of Rioja.

Sartarelli - pace setters in Italy’s Marche region

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A perfect pairing: The River Cafe's sea bass baked in salt

Piccini: Tuscan specialists

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Cook with California – A food and wine pairing competition for chefs, restaurateurs and sommeliers

Promotional feature. The California Wine Institute devised Cook with California for chefs, restaurateurs and sommeliers across the UK to submit what they consider are the best pairings of food and California wines.

Shining a spotlight on the Bourgogne Côte d'Or appellation

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DWWA judge profile: Arabella Woodrow MW

Arabella Woodrow MW is now retired after working in many different sectors of the wine trade. She continues to do wine consultancy, mentoring work and judging in wine competitions.

DWWA Acting Regional Chair for Champagne: Simon Field MW

Simon Field MW worked for Berry Brothers & Rudd for over 20 years. In 2015, he was admitted into the Gran Orden de Caballeros del Vino.

DWWA Acting Regional Chair for New Zealand: Rebecca Gibb MW

Rebecca Gibb MW is an award-winning wine writer, author of The Wines of New Zealand and Director of The Drinks Project.

DWWA judge profile: Alistair Cooper MW

Alistair Cooper MW consults, judges, hosts events and educates in both the UK and Chile, as well as writing for various wine publications.

DWWA judge profile: Andreas Rosendal

Andreas Rosendal is Restaurant Director at Whatley Manor Hotel, where he is responsible for the hotel’s Two Michelin-starred restaurant, as well as Grey’s Brasserie and the recently launched Green Room.

DWWA Acting Regional Chair for Bordeaux: Dimitri Mesnard MS

Dimitri Mesnard MS is the International Brand Ambassador for Jackson Family Wines.

DWWA Regional Chair for Southern Italy and Acting Regional Chair for Argentina: Anthony Rose

Anthony Rose is an award-winning wine and sake writer, and a founding member of The Wine Gang. He is the Regional Chair for Southern Italy and Australia at the DWWA 2020.

DWWA judge profile: Andrea Briccarello

Andrea Briccarello is the UK Brand Ambassador for Bisol.

DWWA judge profile: Bruno Besa

Bruno Besa worked for almost 20 years in hotels and restaurants before co-founding Astrum Wine Cellars.

DWWA judge profile: Adam Bruntlett

Adam Bruntlett is responsible for buying Loire, Burgundy, Jura and Savoie for the Berry Bros & Rudd group.

DWWA judge profile: Beverly Tabbron MW

Beverly Tabbron MW is head of training and education at Hallgarten Druitt.