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Is 2022 bordeaux really that good?
A final report on this year’s Southwold-on-Thames tasting of about 200 wines from the unusually hot, dry 2022 vintage. A version of this article is published by the Financial Times...
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 14 February 2026
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The Southwold tastings – a history
1947 first growths a-go-go. Things were very different when this annual tasting got off the ground. Above, at the prototype tasting in 1980, left to right, an unknown taster, John...
Jancis Robinson
Thursday 12 February 2026
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2022 bordeaux four years on – left-bank reds
Jancis Robinson
Wednesday 11 February 2026
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