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James Laube speculates about what lies ahead for wine prices in the wake of the economic crisis

• It's truffles and Bob Marley for James Molesworth while on vacation in Saint Bart's

• Confined to bed with pneumonia, James Suckling wonders, do you drink wine when you're sick?

• Harvey Steiman asks which wine has been your most surprisingly successful Thanksgiving match

Harvest 2008: Brian Loring's Mourvèdre begins to ferment

• Adam Lee believes Piedmont's great Nebbiolo grape has a future in California

• Stéphane Ogier says that harvesting late paid off in the Côte-Rôtie

• Josh Bergström signs off from the promising 2008 harvest in Oregon

• Barbara Kronenberg-Widmer details why Brancaia spends so much money each year on new barrels

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