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"Great wines like Les Clans, from a top estate in Château d’Esclans (see best buy), with exacting winemaking including barrel fermentation and maturation, smack more of a grand white burgundy domaine than a pink producer and, unlike others, can age...

Cheers! The wine expert’s 50 top whites and fizz Jane MacQuitty, The Times Read article - click here! Catherine Marshall Wines, 2020 Chenin Blanc Fermented in Clay £26.95 - Buy Now "A Western Cape old chenin blanc vine triumph, fermented in...

2020 Rock Angel, Château d’Esclans, Côtes de Provence, France (£23.95, www.finewinedirect.co.uk). "Primarily Grenache with Rolle making up the numbers 2020 Rock is a magnificent creation and this wine soars above the other in terms of structure balanced with innate elegance.  The...

Chancellor Sunak has decided to keep wine duty frozen for the second consecutive year. To summarise that means UK duty on 75cl wine bottle is £2.23 and £2.86 on sparkling wine and then VAT is charged on top for all...

"There’s no doubt the marketing of Provence’s rosé wines is slick, the implied St Tropez lifestyle, fancy bottles and jewel-like colour of the wines all contributing to their outstanding success in recent decades. Of course, the quality of the wines...