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Jancis's diary – January 2026
January is always a heavy month for professional wine tastings. This year Jancis fortified herself beforehand. 2026 got off to a truly delightful start when Nick and I spent the...
Jancis Robinson
Monday 2 February 2026
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Bordeaux 2023 in bottle – the crus bourgeois
Classic, affordable bordeaux made for pleasure and selected for an independent, reliable and regularly updated classification. For all that we’ve published on this vintage, see Bordeaux 2023 – a guide...
Julia Harding MW
Wednesday 24 December 2025
• 7 min read
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This time ten years ago, the 2008 vintage of Bordeaux hadn't yet flowered on the vine. In much the same...
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We are very sorry to report the demise on Sunday of Patrick Maroteaux, 67, of Ch Branaire Ducru, who had...
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See also Breakthrough discovery in Georgia and Georgian wines here and there. In the middle of October I presented a...
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The Union des Grands Crus come to London every autumn (and tour several other wine-loving cities around the world) to...
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Gavin Quinney of Ch Bauduc gives us this extremely comprehensive report on a particularly heterogeneous vintage. Bordeaux 2017 will go...
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Moshe Cohen is based in Manchester, England. He had a small wine business from 1999 until 2007 when he decided...
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The visit and tasting that always stays most sharply in my memory after a Bordeaux primeurs week is with François...
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12 October 2017 We're making this article free to provide a bit of vicarious enjoyment of the ancients.
9 October...
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Tom Munro wrote recently about The other Bordeaux, the Bordeaux outside the favoured elite of classed growths where all sorts...
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Tom Munro, finalist in our wine writing competition , offers this snapshot of a selection of independent Bordeaux vignerons who...
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Tom Munro, pictured here at Ch Tire Pé, which he describes as ' trailblazer in the shift towards Bordeaux's nineteenth-century...
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See also part one of Tom Munro's series on The other Bordeaux, published today.
Over the last two decades there...
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In the invitation to this tasting, the first ever held in London by the Union des Gens de Métier, the...
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Nephew of the owner of Ch Pontet-Canet Basile Tesseron (pictured), his wife Berangère Carsberg, and their four sons (two of...
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Bordeaux’s second wines are on the move – both in terms of price and, fortunately, quality – not least because...
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The local bank Crédit Agricole is ubiquitous throughout France, indeed is our very own bank here in the Languedoc. Every...
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