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Jancis's diary – October 2025
Two fabulous weekends, and a lot of tasting. The Tuscan weekend is exemplified by the outdoor Sunday lunch pictured above (unthinkable in London). I write this just before taking off...
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Monday 3 November 2025
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Jancis's diary - September 2025
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Wednesday 1 October 2025
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Winners and dinners and much else besides. Above, the Supreme Champion trophy at this year's Wine GB Awards. Since 1989...
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Spain, Languedoc, Roanne, Burgundy, Paris and London this month. My father would have been 100 this month. He used to...
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Why defining the identity of Mediterranean wine is more important now than ever. Thousands of years before the châteaux of...
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Nick Martin suggests how Bordeaux’s en primeur campaign might work in future. See also this long thread on our Members’...
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Mainly some great tastings in London but a fascinating trip to Bordeaux, too. The scariest thing I did this month...
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A month with a trip to Japan and more very smart bottles than professional tastings. Above, Kyoto's 300-year-old Kenninji Ryosokuin...
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Illness, a posh banquet and a 60th wedding anniversary celebration are just some of the items reported here. Poor Nick...
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Can this southern Australian state compete with Burgundy for cool-climate wines with real personality and sense of place? See also...
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Heat, or lack of it, was a theme this month. February is meant to be a short month, and we...
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Brian Croser of Tapanappa in the Piccadilly Hills reports on an extraordinarily early – yet promising – harvest. Above, bins...
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Temperature was a theme this month. Above, the outdoor pool at Estelle Manor, said to be heated but even so...
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Not many professional tastings but an unusual number of lunches.
For logistical reasons I have to finish my diary a...
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Tastings, dinners, films, and a Tube incident. Above, Lille at night. There was much less travel in November, though I...
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The power of bitterness in the complex polyphony of Georgian cuisine.
‘putin Xuilo’* it said on the high, rusty metal...
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Lots of 'work' and quite a bit of perk, too.
After last month’s frenetic travel schedule, life calmed down a...
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A pumping bass and mic-drops at the Château du Clos de Vougeot mark changing times in the heart of Burgundy...
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