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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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There's a reason the Hungarians celebrate Furmint February : it may be the ultimate winter white. See the bowl of...
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A monthly despatch that's much shorter than expected. Jancis's current routine drink, above.
Like many others, I’ve had a rather...
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A dramatic wine demands dramatic food. And that doesn’t mean ‘Asian’.
On the global scale of wine crimes, the well-worn...
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Some impressions from a memorable visit, also described in Drinking in Piemonte – wines and vintages 2011–2023 and The Barolofication...
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What it says on the tin. Above, one view of the JancisRobinson.com Christmas dinner 2023. You can just pick out...
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Behind the scenes at one of Australia's most desirable wine shows.
Australia's wine shows are the bellwethers of the country's...
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Journalist and Lebanese wine expert Michael Karam considers how Georgia and Lebanon, two of the world’s oldest and most geopolitically...
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A new generation of born-and-bred Armenians – mostly women – is creating the most exciting chapter in Armenian wine yet...
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Following up on Tam's March visit to France's Roussillon, when the wild rocket and cherry trees were in full bloom...
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Nick Martin of Wine Hub puts this year's en primeur campaign in perspective. See also this guide to the Bordeaux...
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For English Wine Week, Tam shares her new discoveries from an ever-evolving wine region.
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'Young guns' has become an...
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With water in short supply, Roussillon's vintners are planning ahead. Above, one of Treloar's old-vine vineyards showing verdant ground cover...
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Pumpkin-seed oil as complex, terroir-reflective and delicious as great wine. The smell was rich in the air. Sweet, roasted, green...
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Overarching conclusions – and some bargains from this year's extensive, three-day blind tasting of all the bordeaux 2019s that matter...
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8 December 2022 You may have heard Tamlyn Currin chatting with Jancis on our first-ever podcast this week. Here, in...
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No one should write off this smoke-shrunk vintage. There are apparently some beauties to be winkled out – from the...
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