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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
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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Gavin Quinney is kind and energetic enough to share more stats and charts than ever. Another harvest safely landed and...
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An important, if slightly fraught, annual showcase of the extent to which the rest of the world is catching up...
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James Lawther MW, who did such a splendid job tasting 2019 bordeaux primeurs for us, presents a profile, with vertical...
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Nick Martin of Wine Owners, who has been providing such valuable analyses of each new Bordeaux 2019 release on our...
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After supplying his tasting articles on Bordeaux 2019 right bank and Bordeaux 2019 left bank, James Lawther MW takes a...
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The en primeur system has been called into question more than ever before in this time of pandemic, and generated...
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23 June 2020 Further additions to this article: Chx Meyney, Pontet-Canet, Grand-Puy Ducasse, Haut-Bages Libéral, Durfort-Vivens, Ferrière and d’Issan (including...
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15 June 2020 New additions to this article: wines from Quintus, Troplong Mondot, L'If, Le Pin, Nénin, Ch de Sales...
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Arnica Rowan examines ways of producing lighter wines when global warming suggests otherwise.
Across the planet, consumer preferences are swinging...
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The haunting memories of VE Day evoked last weekend reminded me of a memorable dinner in Paris in 1995 to...
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Anthony Hanson MW* compares en primeur then and now and suggests possible ways the 2019 bordeaux might be sold. See...
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Another dozen wines from an independent UK retailer reviewed. The wines should be available in several other countries. See this...
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23 April 2020 This is such a good idea that it deserves wider exposure, so we are republishing it free...
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This year the pandemic-inspired lockdown put paid to the Bordeaux en primeur campaign that should now be underway. So when...
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A tannic assault: 90 left-bank reds from the 2010 vintage. See this guide to all our previous coverage of the...
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A second helping of bordeaux 2010s, this time tasted blind. See also BI's 2010 bordeaux showcase, and this guide to...
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