Aldo Fiordelli: ‘Deep historical reasons connect Italians to the bitter taste in wine’
Aldo Fiordelli on the Italian love for bitterness...
Guest Column
View opinions on wine news, wine tastings and wine issues from Decanter guest columnists
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Katherine Cole: ‘Yes, we are all doomed to die. But wine won’t do us in’
Katherine Cole on alcohol in moderation...
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Hugh Johnson: ‘There is real excitement to be found among neglected grape varieties’
Hugh Johnson on the merits of forgotten varieties...
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Elaine Chukan Brown: ‘For an emerging region, success with a grape like Chardonnay proves tricky’
Winemaking in Virginia...
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Joe Warwick: ‘Come Christmas, there’s a painfully challenging spike in the tired and emotional drinker’
Joe Warwick on coping with the ‘festive fatigue’...
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Elaine Chukan Brown: ‘While I’ve had sake and mead worth talking about, I wouldn’t call either fine wine’
A mead which breaks ‘multiple rules’...
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Hugh Johnson: ‘At what level you start getting your claret kick is a personal thing’
Hugh Johnson on the appreciation of claret...
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Tim Atkin MW: ‘Rías Baixas’ reds are some of the most exciting in Spain right now’
Extolling the virtues of red wines from Rías Baixas...
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Olly Smith: ‘The surging feeling of energy across the Greek wine scene is so potent right now’
Olly Smith's 10 commandments of Greek wine...
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Elaine Chukan Brown: ‘In conventional terms, Arizona seems an unlikely place for vines’
Raising vines in Arizona...
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Hugh Johnson: ‘Château-owners’ secret, they always said, was in their special soil’
Hugh Johnson on what creates a wine’s flavour...
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Arthur Coggill on Bordeaux: ‘This is not a political gripe, just an economic fact’
Why that €4 claret you enjoyed on holiday can’t be found in the UK...
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Charles Curtis MW: ‘Is Champagne truly going green or only greenwashing?’
Charles Curtis MW on Champagne’s green credentials...
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Elaine Chukan Brown: A return to hybrids
The potential of hybrids in fine winemaking...
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Kerin O’Keefe: Decant older wines? Never
A heartfelt manifesto as to why you should never decant an older wine...
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Elaine Chukan Brown: In defence of Zinfandel
Adaptable and expressive of site...
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Pedro Ballesteros Torres MW: ‘Rioja is not a type of wine. It is a whole wine country’
Pedro Ballesteros Torres MW on Rioja’s renewed energy...
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Fred Sirieix: ‘English wine estates need to play the long game’
How to convince more consumers to buy English sparkling wine...
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Hugh Johnson: ‘Today it’s a palo cortado, a relatively elusive midfield player’
Sherry: the great failsafe favourite option...
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Chris Losh: ‘2023: It’s bound to happen (obviously)’
Chris Losh muses on what's in store this year...
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Letter from... Martin Crozier-Cook, a busy merchant
The highs and lows of retail at Christmas...
