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CHILE A new wave of red elegance
Chile's rich diversity of quality red wine styles was on full display at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2025, with a host of top medals for producers in many regions – including two highly coveted Best in Show accolades (see below).
2 min |
November 2025
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Ribeira Sacra rising
A dramatic landscape of vertigo-inducing rocky slopes, this Galician heartland region is not for the faint of heart. Yet determined winemakers are embracing the back-breaking challenge to produce some of Spain's most exciting wines, saving Ribeira Sacra from fading into oblivion
6 min |
November 2025
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MUST DISCOVER
Our local experts cut through the bewildering diversity of Central and Eastern Europe's grape varieties to bring you the pick of the bunch
8 min |
November 2025
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'Today's Germany is becoming a "Pinot paradise" – or so the Germans are claiming
Droughts, heat spikes, hailstorms, wildfires: the catastrophic effects of climate change on the world’s vineyards are evident.
2 min |
November 2025
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MY OTHER PASSION Mountain biking with Daniel Estrin of Cristom Vineyards
Winemaker Daniel Estrin came to make the wines and manage the estate vineyards at Oregon’s Cristom after a nine-year stint working in California alongside Sonoma County legend Ted Lemon (see profile in our September issue). He grew up in the Willamette Valley, but didn’t discover wine until he left.
2 min |
November 2025
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400 YEARS IN CHAMPAGNE
Always defined by its individuality, the house of Henri Giraud is celebrating its 400th anniversary – and intends to enjoy it
5 min |
November 2025
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Distilled
Your guide to the latest trends in spirits and cocktails
1 min |
November 2025
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The ethical drinker A smaller footprint
A new book profiles 13 wine industry climate pioneers
3 min |
November 2025
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The alternative COSTA DEL SOL
This infamously glittery stretch of the southern Spanish coast is not just about extravagant luxury. The lesser-known Costa del Sol is full of unexpected and memorable experiences guaranteed to appeal to the more intrepid wine and food lover
7 min |
November 2025
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Discover SOJU
This distinctive Korean spirit sells hundreds of millions of bottles a year – and now it's making a splash overseas
2 min |
November 2025
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Books etc
Our regular reviewer enjoys two new books by sommeliers of 'serious class'
2 min |
November 2025
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EDITORS' PICKS
Each month our editorial team tastes a lot of wine, but not all of it makes it onto the page. So here's our in-house pick of other great wines we've tried
4 min |
November 2025
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Weekend wines
Get through the working week, and it's time to crack open something a little bit more special. As a companion selection to our 25 wines under £30, the Decanter team has selected seven standout bottles that are sure to impress, all available in the UK and priced between £30 and £60
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November 2025
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UNLIKELY COMPANIONS
Spain has so many much-loved culinary traditions that it can be easy to fall into the trap of pigeonholing Spanish food and wine pairings. But, as they say, one must learn the rules like a lawyer in order to break them like an artist...
5 min |
November 2025
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Red international varieties in Spain
Some good options here for lovers of a full-on red with varietal flavour to the fore, though genuine Spanish character was generally lacking, our judges concluded
6 min |
November 2025
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Meet the sommelier Ava Mees List
New York born and Amsterdam bred, Ava Mees List goes by her middle name, pronounced 'Mase. She has worked as a sommelier at Noma in Copenhagen since 2019, becoming the restaurant's beverage director in 2022. Starting her career as a part-time bartender at an Art Deco literary café in Amsterdam after finishing her studies in cultural anthropology, she soon decided to dedicate her professional life to learning about and travelling for wine. From 2015 to 2018, Mees worked at sister restaurants Saturne and Clown Bar in Paris before moving to Copenhagen.
4 min |
November 2025
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'Spain deserves more dynamism, more ambition, more recognition'
Rioja, 1991. Priorat, 2001. These are the moments the two wine regions rose from the status of DO (denominación de origen) to DOCa (denominació d'origen qualificada, or DOQ: denominació d’origen qualificada in Catalan). It’s etched on the memory of every Spanish sommelier. They were hailed as milestones, proof that Spain's wine hierarchy could evolve. But more than 20 years later, one can’t help asking: has it, really?
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November 2025
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LIGHTING UP LEVANTE
Lovers of Spanish wine have mostly looked north for the past few decades. But the country's southeast is home to a variety of DOs beginning to tilt the country's geographical scale. Make space for the new Levante
7 min |
November 2025
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European wine culture under threat
Wine's place in the intensifying debate around alcohol and health policy has returned to the spotlight in recent weeks amid a high-level meeting at the United Nations (UN).
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November 2025
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IN PURSUIT OF BALANCE
As Spain grapples with the impact of overtourism in some of its most popular destinations, the country's wine producers are pursuing 'enoturismo' as a positive way of educating consumers and creating new opportunities in less-visited areas
5 min |
November 2025
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Welcome to our 2025 Spain guide
It's been an eyeopening, fascinating year, for reasons both good and bad, a turbulent period, not least across southern Europe's vineyards, where, after years plagued by drought, wildfires caused heartbreaking destruction.
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November 2025
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The idea of terroir is sacred, but is it helping us to communicate what truly matters?
The word terroir is everywhere: on tasting sheets and in marketing copy and articles. Far from being a unique property of certain distinguished vineyards, it seems as though everyone is focused on expressing their terroir, sometimes to the tune of millions of bottles a year.
3 min |
November 2025
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The Landing
In the picturesque but windswept coastal far north of New Zealand, this small winery is breathing new life into the region where the nation's first vines were planted
3 min |
November 2025
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Creative pairings for... Thanksgiving dinner
A crazy collection of carb- heavy, often sweet side dishes arrayed around a savoury turkey centrepiece that many don't even like - Thanksgiving dinner presents a particularly thorny wine pairing conundrum. And the solutions may not be what you expect
4 min |
November 2025
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Bonarda
No longer just the standard lunchtime sip for Argentines, Bonarda and its succulently fruity charms are climbing the quality ladder
8 min |
November 2025
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I feel solidarity with the courageous growers who stake so much on challenging the English weather'
It's surprising, in a sense, that the category of English wine that's the first to establish itself as seriously good is the most expensive: the bubbly. Our still whites haven't yet quite produced show models to follow; and reds, often struggling to reach full ripeness, are so far generally considered a bit thin. The best Essex Pinot Noir, notably from the Danbury ridge, which looks south over the valley of the Crouch river, has everything you can hope for - and costs as much as good red Burgundy. You don't save money by staying close to home.
1 min |
November 2025
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A drink with... Minyoung Ryu
Born in South Korea, sommelier Minyoung Ryu worked in fine dining establishments around the world before coming on board at Bali’s Potato Head luxury resort in 2023, where she helped to set up a natural wine bar and restaurant, Dome - a world away from the more traditional establishments in which she spent her early career
2 min |
November 2025
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Beaujolais A wine lover's guide
Now with a wealth of stylish hotel and restaurant offerings to match the glorious Gamays of its celebrated crus, this region to the south of Burgundy is the perfect, off-radar wine destination
8 min |
November 2025
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Northern Rhône 2015
Our judges arrived with high expectations of this line-up of Syrahs from an excellent vintage. They found a superb selection of wines, many of which are already drinking well
10+ min |
November 2025
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A THIRST FOR ANSWERS
How are Spanish producers preparing for a future with less water? And how might their actions reshape the identity of some of the country's flagship regions and vineyards?
5 min |