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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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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
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When Chris Boiling bought his winehouse and small vineyard in Slovenia, he imagined winters would be spent getting to grips...
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Shanghai-based Master of Wine student Young Shi (in a grey suit with orange scarf below) of prominent Chinese wine website...
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Henry Jeffreys, winner of our 2012 restaurant review competition, sends us this story of Christmas drinking, originally published in The...
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Neophyte vigneron Chris Boiling (left in this picture) discovers his grapes are not as noble as he first thought. But...
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See also Great Silvaner – no oxymoron and related articles about the grape's 350th anniversary. According to the Brothers Grimm...
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Last Tuesday I confessed that I was celebrating my fortieth anniversary of writing about wine that day; see Forty years...
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Australian wine competitions are a notorious proving ground for the wine industry. For producers, they offer the opportunity of winning...
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Tasting the 2014s in Burgundy last week was a pleasure – not least because this is a light- to medium-weight...
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Hedgehogs, smoke, hornets… The problems continue for neophyte vigneron Chris Boiling. But the winehouse in Slovenia is finally refurbished. Click...
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This is one of two articles investigating where Franciacorta as an Italian traditional-method sparkling wine region stands today. See also...
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Chris Boiling, pictured destemming an unexpectedly large, healthy 2015 crop, continues his misadventures as a vine-grower and winemaker in Slovenia...
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It started with a tweet. I had just got back from Australia having literally tasted hundreds of Australian wines from...
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See also Richard's report on the Rieslings of Mosel and Nahe. Michael will be reporting later this month on many...
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Nacho (short for Ignacio) Campus seen here is a Mexican sommelier and ex IT professional in charge of the wine...
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30 July 2015 Tam's account of her nocturnal adventures while attending the Weinbörse presentation of the latest vintage in Germany...
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A comment by Julia about some of the German wines of the 2014 vintage in this thread on our Members'...
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