Amber Gardner: ‘We are seeing a shift back towards the known, the familiar and, ultimately, the comforting’
A return to 'well-trodden paths'...
Guest Column
View opinions on wine news, wine tastings and wine issues from Decanter guest columnists
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Katherine Cole: ‘Is the real question whether wine regions could shield the rest of us from wildfires?’
Katherine Cole on handling wildfires...
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Joel Stein: ‘The more the person knows about wine, the more obscure your gift needs to be’
It should make the receiver think, ‘Oh, I didn’t even know this existed’...
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Jason Millar: The idea of terroir is sacred, but is it helping us to communicate what truly matters?
'How many people walk into a shop asking for wines grown on alluvial marls..?'
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The food is fine, but what about the wine? A critique of the restaurant critic
The wine is fine too...
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Hugh Johnson: ‘I feel solidarity with the courageous growers who stake so much on challenging the English weather’
Flying the flag for English fizz...
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Cristina Mercuri: Wines on the edge – How Etna is redefining elegance
'On the edge of a new Italian wine identity...'
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Dariusz Galasiński: ‘Is wine a message that extends beyond its agricultural site?’
The relationship between wine and culture...
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Laura Taylor: ‘We need to change the wine-collecting rhetoric’
Where are all the women wine collectors..?
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Katherine Cole: When wine met tariffs, history rarely went according to plan
Katherine Cole on wine tariffs...
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Joel Stein: ‘Show up to that dinner with a 3-litre of anything and you are Dionysus’
What size bottle should you take to a dinner party...
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Roger Jones: ‘Recent experiences have reignited my enthusiasm for NZ Sauvignon’
Roger Jones with a guest column on this iconic category...
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Hugh Johnson: ‘Labels, of course, play the key role’
Hugh Jonhson on wine's 'real worth'...
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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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Victoria Moore: ‘We’re more sensitive to certain odours when hungry’
Exploring your senses when wine tasting...
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The failure of the Surgeon General: Eliza Dumais on the irrelevance of warning labels
Eliza Dumais is dubious about the impact of warning labels on alcohol...
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Dariusz Galasiński: ‘The amateur wine lover sees wine as a source of experience’
How do you define your wine..?
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Katherine Cole: ‘I have had it with stemware – enough already’
The trouble with too much stemware...
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Is January still dry? Eliza Dumais on an alcohol-free month
New Decanter columnist Eliza Dumais tackles Dry January...
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Pascaline Lepeltier: ‘The nose can be deceived, but the mouth much less so’
A different approach to wine tasting...
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Tom Hewson: ‘Dosage is like a sprinkle of salt’
What's the dosage in your glass of fizz...?
