Long Read Wine Articles
Welcome to Decanter.com‘s long read section, which is here to help you make the most of your down-time.
Sit back in your favourite chair with a glass of wine and read commentary, advice and wine discoveries by Jane Anson and Andrew Jefford.
Popular long read wine articles:
Andrew Jefford
- UK drinking limits – toxic advice?
- Beginner’s guide to tasting wine
- How Châteauneuf du Pape ages in the cellar
Jane Anson
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Jefford on Monday: Grapevine trunk disease - the 'next phylloxera'
Is this the biggest threat to the world's vineyards?...
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Priorat in-depth and great reds to try - Andrew Jefford
How Priorat started making some of Spain's best reds...
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Anson: Bordeaux counts cost of frost for 2017 vintage
Bordeaux's frostbite injury list...
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Jefford on Monday: Tracking terroir
Analysing links between soil and terroir...
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Jefford on Monday: Tenants and sharecroppers
Andrew Jefford looks at how it works...
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Anson: Jesse Katz - Remember the name
Jane Anson meets a rising star of wine...
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Jefford on Monday: To cru or not to cru
Diverse approaches in Priorat and Sancerre...
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Anson: The women who shaped Bordeaux
Jane Anson identifies a few key figures...
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Jefford on Monday: Wineism - towards a political philosophy of wine
Andrew Jefford's five rules of wineism...
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Jane Anson's top 10 'affordable' Bordeaux wines
Jane Anson's insider guide...
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Jefford on Monday: Lessons from the laureate
From novel writing to winemaking...
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What the Decanter team is eating and drinking this Christmas
Here are our Christmas wines...
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What chefs will be eating and drinking this Christmas
How to roast a turkey and wine inspiration...
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Jefford on Monday: Sancerre and friends
Touring Central Loire with Andrew Jefford...
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Anson: St-Emilion's year of deals
What has been going on?...
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Jefford on Monday: Montsant - silence and beyond
Quietly building towards something special...
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Anson: Why these top Oregon winery owners want a piece of Santenay
Jane Anson meets the winemaking team...
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Jefford on Monday: Alcohol labelling - taste first, then look
Why wine tasters are getting it wrong too often...
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Anson: Why a decline in soil health should worry all wine lovers
How many earthworms does it take to make fine wine?...
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Bordeaux 2017: How the new vintage is shaping up
Jane Anson investigates the new vintage...
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Jefford on Monday: La Livinière and the lion race
One to watch, says Andrew Jefford...
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Anson: Fifty shades of green - Wine's big new debate?
Jane Anson looks at the fault lines...
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Jefford on Monday: The white question
Is Priorat on the verge of change?...
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Anson: Tasting historic Lynch-Bages wines
Jane Anson tastes vintages from 1924 to 1961...
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Jefford on Monday: The good and the right
Andrew Jefford explores personal taste...
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Anson: Reprieve for creator of long-lost Bordeaux wine
The man at the centre of a controversial story...
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Jefford on Monday: Talent under the cosh
Career-threatening hailstorms and identity in Beaujolais...
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Anson: Tasting 100 years of wine at Bordeaux's Château Le Puy
A century of vintages from Château le Puy...
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Jefford on Monday: The Georgia Connection
Andrew Jefford interviews a professor of ancient wine...
