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What last week's storm did to the Côte de Beaune (Inside information) 1 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
With all the difficulties of the vine-growing season of 2013 - a particularly long winter and almost non-existent spring with cold and wet weather continuing in May and June - Burgundy's winemakers ha...
Canadian wine comes to London (Tasting articles) 31 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
The Canadians have long been proud of their wines and finally this pride is increasingly justified. Indeed, so confident are they of how well their wines show in an international context that they org...
Georgia's dilemma - part 2 (Inside information) 31 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
This article will make more sense if you read part 1 first. Wines made in qvevri, Georgia's clay fermentation and storage vessels buried in the ground (the photo on the left shows the sealed opening o...
Georgia's dilemma - part 1 (Inside information) 30 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
How do you take pride in your country without being nationalistic? How do you defend yourself against aggressively armed giants at the border while treating your guests as gifts from God? How do you m...
Italy - our collected works (Tasting articles) 30 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
See Our collected works - a guide . This is the eleventh and last of our series of regional collections of tasting notes from all of the JancisRobinson.com team, which we hope you have found both usef...
Winemaker as performer (Free for all) 30 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
The abrupt departure of Matthieu Kauffmann from Champagne Bollinger last April threw into sharp relief the existence of a new sort of responsibility in the world of wine. As Bollinger's CEO Jérôme Phi...
Lafite's weeping willows (Free for all) 29 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
We had a storm in Bordeaux late last Friday and in the early hours of Saturday. Summer thunderstorms here are not uncommon after protracted heatwaves, but there was some significant, localised damage....
Bordeaux and SW France - our collected works (Tasting articles) 29 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
Gosh (some of) these wines are expensive! Good to see that our old friend Capbern-Gasqueton 2009 is holding up well. The Laithwaites production facility on the Castillon quayside (described here by Ta...
Pfalz mourns loss of benefactor (Inside information) 29 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
Entrepreneur, investor and visionary Achim Niederberger died unexpectedly last Thursday, 25 July, at the age of 56. A successful businessman in the world of media and marketing, he decided in 2001 to ...
Pinot's extraordinary pedigree (Free for all) 27 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
Today's Financial Times Weekend Magazine is a special graphics edition. My contribution is to share the biggest of the 14 grape-variety pedigrees/family trees included in our award-winning tome Wine G...
