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Wildfires in Chile, New Zealand floods, South Africa starts harvest, Prosecco sales strong
Also: the WHO calls for raised alcohol taxes; more tariff drama; Champagne sales decline, and protests continue at Moët Hennessy. Above, fires still rage in South Africa. Photo by David...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 23 January 2026
• 4 min read
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Sweetener in French AOC wines, US diet guidelines updated, New Zealand free-trade deal
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 10 January 2026
• 1 min read
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Jancis's diary – November and December 2025
Jet lag, a bad cold, but somehow an awful lot of good wine was enjoyed. This diary is a double helping, covering late October to late December, because this particular...
Jancis Robinson
Friday 2 January 2026
• 1 min read
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Written in conjunction with Yohan Castaing. In a terse press release at the end of last week, the French Ministries...
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Something to get you in the mood for ringing in the New Year...May your celebrations be heartfelt. JR One producer...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times . This is the first of...
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To celebrate their record champagne sales this year, London fine-wine traders Bordeaux Index held a tasting of some of the...
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I love my tasting sessions three or four times a year in the bowels of Windsor Castle or Buckingham Palace...
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The temperature, we were told, was set at precisely 20 ºC, but it felt peculiarly cooler than that as our...
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We have been absolutely staggered by the high standard of entries in our Olympic writing competition. Admittedly there were only...
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17 Aug Resounding silence so far suggests a bottle of this delicious de luxe champagne is yours for the price...
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This correspondence is self explanatory, and possibly not unusual. Early July 2012 To Holland America Line [whose tagline is 'A...
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In March 2009 Bruno Paillard, champagne producer currently on a PR offensive, came over to London to demonstrate to a...
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Even later that day: Feel free to comment below. Paillard presumably won't since, according to a standard email message, the...
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Fancy a bottle of White Horse House? How about The Pine, then? Or Big Mountain Fair House? There's no question...
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‘Can buy anything I want from the records I've sold / Jacuzzi's hot, Cristal is so cold', as Ludacris rapped...
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I heard twice, now three times, from award-winning Cornish winemaker Bob Lindo of Camel Valley today. His first despatch was...
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We’re great admirers of grower champagnes here, Jancis having written about them a number of times, including Growers' champagnes from...
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