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March's top-scoring wines		Free content
	This month, just one wine rose to the top of the pile with 95 points: Weingut Emmerich Knoll Grüner Veltliner Ried Schütt Smaragd 2008 Gorgeous nose, shimmering with minerality, white pepper and lime zest aromatics. There are subtle layers of floral and nutty notes here too. On the palate terrific acidity and that tight, pithy orange fruit, just wrapping and constraining the whole picture, the broader spicy base adding weight to the finish. This is brilliant, but Knoll's wines cellar well and can become almost Burgundy-like over 10 years or more. Score: 95/100; £25.00 at Lay & Wheeler. Other stockists on wine-searcher.com. Just behind with 94 points came a clutch of wines, from a superior Vinho Verde at £20.00, to a gorgeous Barolo at £40.00.	Tim Atkin on France: with Bordeaux 2009 fever mounting and a dynamic industry, why is France slipping in the rankings?
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		March's report includes SPAR from the high street; Bibendum, Lea & Sandeman, Colasanti, Lay & Wheeler and Fine & Rare wines; the wines of Portugal, Oregon and France and the world's biggest player, Constellation.
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