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Champagne news, hail hits Loire, Barossa uproar, RIP Angela Muir MW

9 min • 25 juli 2025

This week Sam discusses a human-trafficking case in Champagne, a reduction in the allowable harvest yield in Champagne, hail in Sancerre and the Gard, fire in Columbia Gorge AVA in Oregon, developers trying to push through a resort on protected land in Barossa, and the passing of Angela Muir MW.

You can read the transcript of this newscast at https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/champagne-news-hail-hits-loire-barossa-uproar-rip-angela-muir-mw.

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Champagne news, hail hits Loire, Barossa uproar, RIP Angela Muir MW

Senaste avsnitt

Wildfires burn Aude, Corsica and California, super-light wine bottles, new GI for Argentina

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