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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...
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Monday 2 February 2026
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Jancis's diary – November and December 2025
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Today's Throwback Thursday was published last Monday. Since sending out my weekly email last Friday, I have had several puzzled...
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The most exciting thing that happened to us when Nick and I spent a few days in Bordeaux last week...
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For today's Throwback Thursday, we travel backwards only as far as two days ago to revisit this report by wine...
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Last Thursday I hosted a wine tasting for about 40 professional people in Bath, western England (its famous Georgian crescent...
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This year’s en primeur circus was fun. Not a series of disappointments as perhaps Richard, who tasted all the embryonic...
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26 Mar 2015 In the light of today's survey of nearly 100 bordeaux 2007s retasted blind recently, I thought these...
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In 1983, Howard Garner, psychologist and Harvard professor, presented a new model to explain intelligence, differentiating nine independent kinds of...
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Young Shi was invited by the Penglai Wine Bureau in Shandong Province on the east coast to taste and judge...
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See also part 1 and part 2 of Walter's report on the progress of Italian varieties in Australia. Although the...
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This is the continuation o f Walter's Italian grape varieties in Australia – part 1. Climate change is one of...
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5 Feb This Throwback Thursday, we are republishing Richard's piece from December 2013 about his experience comparing the pleasures of...
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I got back on Sunday from our week in South Africa feeling transformed from my previous post-pneumonia self. What greeted...
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A very quick report in the middle of London’s Burgundy Week. The tastings seem to be as well attended as...
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Kerin O'Keefe's latest book was one of our reviewer's six wine books of 2014 , reviews of which we published...
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Last Thursday I enjoyed a sentimental reunion with some well-known old workmates, the first in 12 years. Longstanding Purple Pagers...
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6 Nov 2014 Today's Throwback Thursday article was first published on 15 July 2013 and, with Walter's reviews today of...
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