Blind faith: Eliza Dumais on our obsession with tasting blind
Why are we so fixated on tasting without seeing the label?
Opinion
Opinion – views and debate on the biggest wine news stories from the Decanter team.
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Andrew Jefford: ‘Listen to the best teacher in the world: nature’
Andrew Jefford talks to a fourth-generation Barolo producer with vineyards in Serralunga...
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St-Joseph: Revisiting 2022 in bottle
Surprising balance from an extreme year...
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The ethical drinker: Let’s talk about bees
Natalie Earl on the importance of bees...
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Baudains: Veneto's viticultural riches
Celebrating the diversity of Veneto's wine offering...
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Katherine Cole: ‘The surest way to ensure wine’s demise is to politicise it’
Mixing politics and wine? Katherine Cole comments...
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Côtes du Rhône Villages Nyons: Where olives and vines are inextricably linked
Go here to satisfy both your wine and olive cravings...
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Pursehouse: ‘I reviewed over 150 wines in March, here are 10 standouts‘
North American editor Clive Pursehouse shares his tasting highlights from March...
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Walls: Exclusive first taste of M Chapoutier’s Sélections Parcellaires 2024
A taste of what's to come...
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Andrew Jefford: ‘The progress Georgia has made in the last decade is astonishing’
Jefford on how Georgian wine has been gaining ground...
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Baudains: How Tuscany created Europe's first DOCs
A useless duke and the staggeringly successful wine regions he classified...
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Victoria Moore: ‘We’re more sensitive to certain odours when hungry’
Exploring your senses when wine tasting...
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Walls' hidden gems: Domaine Mayard, Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Forging a distinct identity...
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Have we reached ‘Peak Can’? Eliza Dumais on the supposed joys of aluminium
I believe it was Plato who once said that while corks and screw-tops are both fine and good, you’re far more likely to get lucky if you opt for the former...
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Pursehouse – 'I tasted 250 wines in February, here are 10 I loved'
Clive Pursehouse shares a selection of wines he tasted in February...
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Wine and the Oscars: Official pours and alternative suggestions
With the 97th Academy Awards around the corner, we take a closer look at wine and the Oscars...
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Walls: 19 vintages of Beaucastel's white Rhône masterpiece
Remarkable longevity from an estate that defies convention...
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Andrew Jefford: ‘Has Montefalco and its secret come striding past you yet?’
Jefford on returning to Montefalco...
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Baudains: What links the French president with a wine estate in Veneto?
With a 16 vintage vertical...
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Walls: Domaine de la Mordorée's La Plume du Peintre; then and now
The evolution of a southern Rhône label...
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Ontario's boycott on US wine: A crisis paused but not averted
Economist Jens-Peter Barynin takes a closer look...
