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Jancis's diary – February 2026
A short month in London with just one sortie, to Barcelona for 48 hours. Nick took this picture of Jancis and Ferran Adrià of El Bulli. On the first of...
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Monday 2 March 2026
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Of shelter and exposure in the Corbières
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Wednesday 25 February 2026
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Phil Laffer, chief winemaker of Jacob’s Creek et al, is a bit gloomy. Not only does he put his heart...
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Spare a thought for the visitors to the current Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Not only is there...
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The admirable Tim Hanni MW of the Napa Valley has been rattling our cages recently – not least by building...
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I don’t know, you go for days and days without much happening and then come a great welter of stories...
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The 'news' that Nyetimber, an English sparkling wine, had supposedly beaten Champagne Bollinger in a blind tasting organised in Italy...
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I had breakfast with the French Minister of Agriculture yesterday, the way you do. Actually, it was a breakfast meeting...
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Well I trod the boards for the first time since I was 17 last Saturday night – for about 10...
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‘The people have spoken and the Ontario wine industry appears to have listened.’ So begins a report in yesterday’s Canadian...
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The super-fastidious New York Times published a story on Sunday in which writer Frances Dinkelspiel detailed the opposition in northern...
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