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Of shelter and exposure in the Corbières
Chris Howard contemplates the precarious balance of water, weather and vines in France’s Languedoc. Late summer sun beats down on the red valley, but we’re in the shade of the...
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Wednesday 25 February 2026
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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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Friday 2 January 2026
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Last June during a visit to Puglia I was reminded again of how privileged we wine writers are. I was...
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Talking of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, read what veteran British wine marketeer Mike Paul has to say about the current...
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See also this guide to our organic and biodynamic viticulture stock take last week. Guillaume Bodin is a young French...
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23 Jul - Better news for Castel, and others, is that its subsidiary Barrières Frères, jointly owned with Suntory of...
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A lot has already been said and written about non-sulphured wines (put 'natural wine' in our search box, for instance)...
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Richard writes about his new role talent spotting among younger wine writers: Introducing Harry Haddon, a South African wine blogger...
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See also Muscadet (re)visited, part 1 – crus de foudre One of wine's most celebrated qualities is as a liquid...
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See also part two – a manifesto for Muscadet and part three – some top examples Shortly after I wrote...
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Yesterday, on the occasion of his state visit to Berlin, Barack Obama was presented with a gift of 2011 Piesporter...
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Andrew Licudi (pictured at home near Jerez) is a recent WSET graduate. He sold his specialist Spanish wine business in...
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We asked Ferran Centelles, our new Spanish specialist, to begin by surveying the state of wine in Spain today. Twenty...
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Yohan Castaing writes: ' Serve them good wine, they will make good laws', said Michel de Montaigne, one of the...
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Wine professionals in London have a choice of two wine fairs to visit today: the first day of the London...
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See this guide to our extensive coverage of Bordeaux 2012. There is one good thing about the Bordeaux 2012 campaign...
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Just before the annual Tuscan en primeur tastings (on which I will report in detail later this week) last February...
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A few years ago London's fine-wine traders and merchants en masse opened up subsidiaries in Hong Kong. As you can...
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