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Gigondas, Vacqueyras & Beaumes de Venise 2024: The very best wines from a standout year
Gigondas rules the roost this year...
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Rasteau, Cairanne & Vinsobres 2024: The best of the vintage’s ‘precise and drinkable’ wines
A safe bet for enjoyment and drinkability...
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Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2024: Best picks from a fresh and vibrant bunch
A tale of contrasts...
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Hybrids in Canada: Adapting to a warming world
A cross-over success...
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St-Joseph 2024: The best wines brimming with peppery spice
An early-drinking vintage with fragrance and delicacy...
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Crozes-Hermitage 2024: Our expert’s picks in a year where selection is key
Tough times for this appellation, with a few glimmers of hope...
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Guess the vintage: Bordeaux fine wine history quiz
Can you decode the year?...
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Merlot wine quiz: Test your knowledge of this famous grape variety
How well do you know this 'noble' variety?
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UK Wine Stockists
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Wine prices: Which is Europe’s most expensive country?
Recent ranking puts UK in the top 10...
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Hermitage 2024: Elegant reds but a vintage where white wines reign supreme
Look out for the whites...
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Our expert reveals the best hacks to buying wine online
Give buying wine online a try...
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Tips on how to navigate your local independent wine merchant
It's easier than you think, and it supports local businesses...
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Smell: How our most overlooked sense can ground us
Exploring the rhythms of seasons and scent...
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Wine investment: Tough trading for California’s blue-chip labels
It's an uphill battle in some quarters...
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Côte-Rôtie & Condrieu 2024: An early drinking vintage
Challenges in Rhône's northern extremities...
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Cornas & St-Péray 2024: A vintage that yielded wines of charm and elegance
A few names rose to the top this year...
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Rhône 2024 en primeur: Full report and the vintage’s top-scoring wines
An outlier vintage, with mixed results...
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Books: From table to page – new wine books by renowned sommeliers
Our regular reviewer on two new reads in the wine world...
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Spanish wines with food: Five unexpectedly great pairings
Alternative pairings everyone should try...
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Fresh off the wine press: The ‘other’ nouveau wines bringing joyous revelry in November
Playful frivolity abounds...
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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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Editors’ picks – November 2025
See what our team has been trying recently...
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Editors’ picks – October 2025
See what our team has been trying recently...
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Côte-Rôtie & Condrieu 2023: Report and top-scoring wines
Best of the far north...
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Collector’s Guide: Left Bank Bordeaux
The world of classic claret revisited...
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Creative pairings for Thanksgiving dinner
Wine and beyond...
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Discover perfect wine pairings for pork: A guide to flavour harmony
From a hearty roast to bangers and mash...
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What do you know about Willamette Valley? A Pinot Noir lover’s quiz
Test your knowledge...
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Wine investment: Signs of revival in the Champagne market?
Scotch and old claret also hit the auction scene...
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Raise a glass to Spain’s flagship grape this International Tempranillo Day
Be tempted by Tempranillo this November...
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International Merlot Day: Why Merlot still dominates despite its Sideways reputation
Merlot is often considered a lesser blending companion to other varieties...
