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The rise and rise of varietal wine
20th November 2025
It wasn’t all that long ago that if you wanted to order a wine, you’d need to know quite a bit about the names of the different wine regions. The labelling of wine by grape variety, which is the nor...
Jamie Goode is a London-based winewriter who is currently wine columnist with UK national newspaper The Sunday Express. As well as writing he also lectures and judges wine.
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