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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...
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Friday 2 January 2026
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Jancis's diary - September 2025
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Wednesday 1 October 2025
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See also Tamlyn‘s tasting notes from a 10th anniversary tasting of wines from The WineBarn. In the tiny, picturesque Hampshire...
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I’ve just hosted wine dinners on consecutive nights in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing designed to publicise the forthcoming mainland...
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Here's how to feel important. Go to Yamanashi prefecture in Japan, where 95% of all Japanese Koshu grapes are grown...
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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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All is far from well at Vinfolio, the ambitious San Francisco-based fine-wine retailer, storage company and cellar-management company described here...
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Post script – J&B have very kindly suggested that I taste some leftover samples of the Bruno Clair wines that...
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There is bad news on the Burgundy 2008 front, and not just that I am starting to taste wines lower...
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A thing of beauty or a 75cl joke? Any guesses as to where this bottle of wine may have come...
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