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Decanter World Wine Awards 2026 results are out now! Your essential guide to exceptional wines worldwide, discover who's made the @DecanterAwards list...
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Left Bank or Right Bank? Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot? Gravel or limestone and clay? Our guide breaks down the key differences between Bordeaux's two famous banks, from grapes to classifications. 🍷
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Orange wine isn't new. It's one of the world's oldest winemaking traditions, born in Georgia thousands of years ago. How skin-contact savvy are you? Take our 12-question quiz. 🍊🍷
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Paid in wine. Pro golfer Matt Wallace was hooked after a pro-am at Château Montrose in 2018. In On the Rack, he reveals his dream trio of bottles, his go-to steak pairing and the wine he's still hoping to try. ⛳🍷
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"I make wine at Lafite and Latour, but my heart is at Calon." Twenty years on, Château Calon Ségur's Vincent Millet is looking beneath the gravel to the clay that could protect it in a warmer, drier Bordeaux. 🤍🍷
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Negroni. Paper Plane. Last Word. Equal-parts cocktails are few and far between, but when they work, they really work. Top bartenders explain the magic, plus four recipes to try at home. 🍸
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A windswept limestone plateau above the Bay of Trieste, just 57 hectares of registered vines, and wines shaped by rock. Richard Baudains explores Carso-Kras, home to Malvasia, Vitovska and Terrano. 🇮🇹🍷
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Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2016 will "go down in the history books along with 1978, 1990, 1998, 2007 and 2010." Matt Walls on why this vintage's extraordinary power is worth experiencing, high alcohol and all. 🍷
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Barossa Shiraz 2024: fewer superstars, but wines of "distinctive elegance and poise." Low yields, frost and a dry winter cut crops by 50% to 90%. David Sly tastes the best of a 4/5 vintage. 🇦🇺🍷
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What does terroir mean? For California's indigenous-owned wineries, it's more than soil and climate. It's also "the history, people, language and relationships that connect a vineyard to the place where it grows." 🍷
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Do wine legs mean a better wine? "The only information that legs offer to the wine lover is that your wine contains alcohol." Our experts bust one of wine's most mythologised habits. 🍷
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Australia's fine wine scene has never been more dynamic. Our Collector's Guide covers the producers to know, five-star vintages, Grange and Hill of Grace, and where collectors are finding value. 🇦🇺🍷
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Chicken nuggets with Slovenian orange wine. Wine raves with 1,000+ guests. Ice cream and wine bars with queues of TikTokers. Gen Z isn't leaving wine, it's reimagining it. 🍷🎶
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Does letting wine "breathe" actually work? Yes, but not for every bottle. Young, robust reds benefit most, while delicate or older wines need a lighter touch. Our guide explains what to do, and when. 🍷
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A Jeroboam of Haut-Brion 1989 sold for €62,500, a new auction record for the wine in that format. Château Haut-Brion's Sotheby's sale spanning 90 years, back to 1935, totalled €3.4m. 🍷
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Tucked into the Pyrenees on the Spanish border, tiny Irouléguy is one of France's most forgotten appellations. Its electric whites taste like "a perfect synthesis between the Atlantic out front and the Pyrenees behind." 🌊⛰️🍷
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Cebiche with Semillon. Lomo saltado with Cabernet Franc. Rocoto relleno with aged Pinot Noir. Lima's sommeliers share what to drink with Peruvian food, from pisco cocktails to St-Emilion with duck. 🇵🇪🍷
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Malbec is a variety, not a style. Ines Salpico's smart buyer's guide shows how to find the depth beyond oak and steak, from concrete-aged bottles to old massal selections. Serve it at 14-16°C. 🍷
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M&S Autumn Tasting is here, and Julie Sheppard has picked 20 bottles worth buying. From a £10 Palomino from South Africa to a new Christmas fine wine capsule collection, here's what to put in your basket. 🍷
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"South Africa's best Pinots are now world-class." Victoria Mason MW reflects on a decade buying Cape wine, from the New Wave revolution to a new generation of grower-winemakers stepping into the spotlight. 🍷🇿🇦
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Thomas Jefferson spent 30 years failing to make wine at Monticello, never knowing phylloxera was to blame. 250 years later, American wine beat Bordeaux and Burgundy blind in Paris. Jacopo Mazzeo charts the full story. 🍷🇺🇸
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