The Wine Society Launches Its "High Intention" Collection
Sustainable wine is one of those categories that sounds brilliant in theory and becomes quietly maddening in practice.
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English Chardonnay Takes On Burgundy at London Wine Fair
Forty-seven countries produce Chardonnay commercially. Most of them will tell you theirs is special. Only a handful get to prove it in front of the people whose opinions actually shape what ends up on your table.
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The Case for Rhône Valley Whites
Forty percent. That's roughly where white wine now sits in Rhône Valley production, matching rosé for the first time in the region's recorded history - a shift that would have seemed genuinely bizarre even five years ago.
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Spring Frosts Hit Champagne and Burgundy
Three consecutive nights of sub-zero temperatures swept through Champagne and Burgundy in early April, and the photographs coming out of both regions look like something from a disaster reel - scorched black vines, frost candles burning in rows across the hillsides, growers standing in their parcels looking exhausted before the season has even properly started.
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Everflyht Launches Wylde, a New English Sparkling
Forty-five pounds is, quietly, a psychological barrier for a lot of people buying English sparkling wine.
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Inside Vagabond's Soho Wine Bar
Forty-eight self-pour wine taps in the middle of Soho. That's the centrepiece of Vagabond Wines' new flagship, which opened this week in one of London's most competitive square miles for food and drink real estate.
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Juvé & Camps Quits Cava for Corpinnat
The Cava DO has lost one of its most recognisable names, and honestly, that might be exactly what Spanish sparkling wine needed.
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Sova Opens in Notting Hill
A wine bar built around Georgian amber, Slovak Riesling, and Slovenian orange is about to open on one of London's most famous streets, and honestly, the timing feels right.
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The Sloane Club Opens a Wine Bar in Chelsea
104 years of members-only evenings, and now anyone can walk in off the King's Road and order a glass of natural wine.
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