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Published by TI Media Limited The world’s best wine magazine. It is simply the “wine bible”. Every month it provides recommendations on the world’s finest wines and tells you where you can find them. From top Bordeaux to the best value wine on the shelf, Decanter guides you through a maze of wine to help you find the right wine for you. It also offers interviews with leading wine personalities, in-depth guides to the wine regions and the latest wine news.

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NAPA’S ACCENDO CELLARS PASSES TO NEXT GENERATION

Bordeaux 1982 commands high prices

A drink with... Nicola Bates

DREAM DESTINATION

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LETTER OF THE MONTH

Hugh Johnson • ‘At what level you start getting your claret kick is a personal thing’

Elaine Chukan Brown • ‘While I’ve had sake and mead worth talking about, I wouldn’t call either fine wine’

WINTER PARTY WINES 25 at £20 or under • Just in time for the festive season, members of the Decanter in-house tasting team have been rushing around to many supermarket and merchant tastings, on the hunt for wines that punch above their weight, at all price levels. Here we bring you their pick of the best under £20 to get your party started

NV redefined • A singular house style has always been the calling card of Champagne producers’ non-vintage bottlings, but now it is ‘multi-vintage’ blends and their changing character in successive years that’s beginning to take centre-stage

10 reasons to REDISCOVER LANGUEDOC • Decanter’s Regional Editor for Languedoc has spent a lot of time in the southern French wine region over the past year, and has been bowled over by the quality on offer. Here she gives us 10 of many good reasons to look at its terroirs, estates and wines through fresh eyes

Weingut Willi Schaefer • The Schaefers are a true Mosel Riesling winemaking dynasty – local documents date the family’s involvement in vineyards back at least as far as 1590. Today it’s Christoph Schaefer running the show

Willi Schaefer: top-flight Rieslings in high demand

Lebanon’s NEW WAVE • The strong contingent of innovative producers and determined young talent in this mountainous nation of the eastern Mediterranean are placing an increasing focus on the identity and flavours of their historic local grape varieties

The new Lebanon: Joy’s 10 fascinating wines to try

Paso Robles 2021 • Focusing in on this diverse region in California’s Central Coast, 2021 tells a story of challenging weather conditions, with drought continuing from the previous year. Yet where vineyards were managed successfully, the resulting quality is being rated as among the best of recent times

PICK OF THE SUB-AVAS IN 2021

Cohen’s pick of Paso Robles: 30 standout wines from 2021

Masi’s Campofiorin

ONTARIO CHARDONNAY • There’s more to eastern Canada than maple syrup, ice hockey and endless frozen winters. And while the latter helps with icewine, that’s not what’s causing a buzz. If you love cool-climate Chardonnay with a real sense of place, then don’t think Burgundy, think Ontario

Unearthing Ribera del Duero

Distilled

FIVE OF THE BEST SLOE GINS

THE BEST AFTER-DINNER DRINKS • Don’t let a special meal end on a low note. From dark spirits to liqueurs, cocktails and fortified wines, a decadent digestive makes the perfect finishing touch

Six delicious digestives to try

A wine lover’s guide • Strike out to the western French department of Charente, a region carved...