Decanter magazine November 2024 issue cover
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Inside the November 2024 issue of Decanter magazine:

FEATURES

  • Natural wine: A lens on the future With interest in natural wines surging, Christina Rasmussen and Honey Spencer investigate the movement’s wider influence
  • Champagne style guide Looking for your new favourite fizz? Tom Hewson’s illustrated guide will help you make new discoveries in the wide world of Champagne
  • Jura It may be France’s smallest wine region, but Jura produces some of the nation’s most fascinating wines, says Rupert Joy
  • Vintage preview: Paso Robles 2022 Brianne Cohen provides key insights into a difficult vintage
  • Barossa Shiraz 2022 highlights Big and burly are adjectives of the past when it comes to Barossa Shiraz, according to David Sly’s report
  • Regional profile, New Zealand: Gimblett Gravels Emma Jenkins MW charts the region’s journey from wasteland to wine mecca

LEARNING

  • Wine wisdom Expert tips to help you on your journey through wine, plus ‘The ethical drinker’

SPIRITS

  • Distilled Spirits news and cocktail insights – plus five great bourbons
  • Sugar-cane juice rums Think you know rum? Think again, as Millie Milliken introduces you to the joys of cane juice spirits

GOOD LIVING

  • Perfect pairing: pairing: Pumpkin & walnut gnocchi Autumn flavours and the best wines to match them
  • Fizz & food: pairings that pop Our food and wine expert Fiona Beckett challenges preconceptions around Champagne pairings
  • Travel: Wine lover’s guide to Etna A Sicilian hotspot in more than one way, says Fiona Sims. The wines, the food and the lava flows

BUYING GUIDE

  • Editors’ picks Tasting highlights
  • Panel tasting: Aragón reds Garnacha and beyond from this rural corner of Spain, with 26 wines scoring 90pts or more
  • Panel tasting: Languedoc whites A wide range of terroirs, grapes and wine styles; a wide range of wines assessed – there’s something for everyone in this epic tasting
  • Expert’s choice: Hunter Valley Semillon Huon Hooke picks 18 of these niche-favourite Aussie dry whites, to drink young or age
  • Weekday wines 25 top wines under £20: the Decanter team brings you some more great-value drops
  • Weekend wines Priced £20-£50, seven standout buys to impress

COLLECTORS

  • Marketwatch investment news Auction news, new releases and strength in big-name Tuscany

REGULARS

  • Meet the experts Decanter’s authors
  • Uncorked News, views & more
  • Andrew Jefford’s column In Roussillon: why Collioure ‘could be a little mountain Burgundy’
  • Hugh Johnson’s column What’s on his ‘comfort list’ of wines?
  • Guest column Jason Millar makes the case for ‘simplicity and purity’
  • DWWA 2024 highlights Piedmont’s signature standouts
  • Wine to 5: Dr Mark Krstic The academic: wine research institute manager at the Australian Wine Research Institute

Inside Decanter’s Spain supplement 2024:

Decanter Spain supplement 2024 cover

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  • Welcome Revolution and reinvention in Spain’s dynamic scene. Ines Salpico
  • Meet the Decanter experts Our team of international Spanish wine contributors
  • Guest column Almudena Alberca MW on the benefits of preserving Spain’s wealth of traditional vine varieties
  • The new Priorat Fintan Kerr on the region’s shift away from weighty, chunky reds to more nuanced styles
  • Producer profile: Alvaro Palacios Sarah Jane Evans MW outlines what makes Alvaro one of Spain’s modern-day benchmark-setting winemakers
  • My top 20: Txakoli Beth Willard’s pick of these fresh, lively northern wines
  • Comando G: crafting Garnacha The passion and commitment that led Daniel Landi and Fernando García to the Gredos mountains. By Ines Salpico
  • Spanish cooperatives David Williams spotlights just some of the best wine co-ops he’s come across on his travels
  • 18 top buys: White Rioja Our Spain Regional Editor Ines Salpico’s pick
  • La hora del vermut Noah Chichester on the central part Spain’s vermouth plays in its lifestyle and daily culture
  • Panel tasting: Spanish Garnacha From 69 wines tasted, our impressed judges picked out nine Outstanding wines and 28 Highly recommended
  • Restaurants: Where to go In Spain’s dynamic dining-out scene, Noah Chichester picks just four must-try new food-and-wine hotspots
  • Travel: 10 top Balearic Island wineries Shawn Hennessey says now is the time to tour the four islands and discover the fascination and diversity of its producers’ wines – and Ines Salpico highlights 1o to look out for and try

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