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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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Jean-Marc Quarin is a specialist, proudly independent writer on the wines of Bordeaux and sends out regular emails on the...
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The Cru Bourgeois classification, sullied by its annulment by the French government in 2007, has been relaunched with an overhauled...
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Christophe Coupez of the Chambre d'Agriculture's official oenology bureau in Pauillac has sent us this update on his earlier report...
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As autumn sets in all across Europe, so the wine trade returns from its summer sojourn and prepares for the...
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From €8.03, 14.59 Swiss francs and $21.99 7 Sep – and 'PeteonTweet' tells me that it's available at Carrefour as...
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Every time we drive into the local town, we pass one of the biggest bulk wine suppliers of the region...
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The 2009 primeur campaign is far from over in mainland China. We will be reporting at greater length on the...
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I have long thought that vineyards and cellars are extremely vulnerable to criminal intent. Anyone with a grudge against an...
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In 1989 first growths, more or less, Jancis tasted a clutch of top 1989s as they were in 2002. When...
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Hot on the heels of Fine & Rare's useful graphs of price movements of individual red Bordeaux comes fine-wine trader...
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