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The best wine regions in France

Where to go for the ultimate wine tour in France By Alicia Miller21 May 2025 All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. France and wine: it’s as natural a combination as peanut butter and jam, or rhubarb and custard. While they may not have invented winemaking […]

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La Chasse au Pinard

Julian Barnes Vol. 46 No. 21 · 7 November 2024 A Thirst for Wine and War: The Intoxication of French Soldiers on the Western Front by Adam D. Zientek.McGill-Queen’s, 272 pp., £34, February, 978 0 2280 1993 0 Awidely distributed​ temperance poster from 1902 produced by Dr Galtier-Boissière is headed ‘L’alcool, voilà l’ennemi.’ It shows two faces at the top. One is that

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Are gone-wild grapevines a danger to viticulture?

by Linda Zsindely, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL Flavescence dorée, a dreaded grapevine disease among winegrowers, is spreading beyond cultivated vineyards. A joint study by the federal research institute WSL and Agroscope published in the Journal of Plant Biology shows that gone-wild grapevines and related vector insects contribute to the spread of the disease

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Austrian wine industry makes plans to safeguard against tariffs

07 May 2025By Michael Huband Chris Yorke, CEO of the Austrian Wine Marketing Board, has revealed how the Austrian industry will respond to Trump’s tariffs, with activities all over the world building the industry‘s resilience. The word on everyone’s lips and – we must confess – journalists’ pens is ‘tariffs’. After years of ongoing disputes,

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DWWA 2025

DWWA 2025: Wines from 57 countries under review at the world’s largest wine competition  Lilla O’Connor May 7, 2025 A sneak-preview of what is happening behind the scenes at DWWA judging week. Now in its 22nd year, Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) has returned to London with wines from 57 countries being assessed over five days at

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