Andrew Jefford
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Andrew Jefford: ‘Luján de Cuyo is comforting, nourishing, maternal’ (opens the original)
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The wine world evolves at different speeds. Some regions stand still – or retreat. Most trundle gently forwards, at ox-cart pace. Occasionally, though, regions accelerate like electric sports cars. A range of new possibilities becomes apparent; diamond-like wines are unearthed, wines with characters and qualities that none of the living have tasted before; producers sprint to acquire and plant still-cheap land while they have the chance. It happened in the Médoc between 1690 and 1740, during wha
Decanter World Wine Awards 2026: An uplifting experience (opens the original)
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Let’s cut the ribbon on our 23rd year of judging the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA)... with a question. What’s the competition for? Why do 245 expert judges from 35 different countries make time in their diaries to come to London’s Docklands each May to taste and then discuss 70-75 wines every day over a week? Why do the world’s wine producers make the effort to enter nearly 17,000 of their precious wines (this year’s total number of entries) for judgement? There are many answers, but the sim
Andrew Jefford: Challenging beliefs on tasting wine and terroir (opens the original)
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Shocked, I sat in the front row. And smiling. Lengthy tutored tastings of this sort are often smooth with platitudes and buttered with praise. Instead, we got Pedro the Iconoclast, hacking away at the received wisdom of the wine world. You know what? No one said anything; no one heckled; no one walked out. (The wines, it’s true, were too good to miss.) Mental note: catch up with Pedro later. This was the Rioja Centennial Celebration (see my May 2026 column), and the tasting compere was Spain’s f
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