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The Case for Rhône Valley Whites

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

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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Inside Vagabond's Soho Wine Bar

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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Sova Opens in Notting Hill

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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