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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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I went to a wonderful tasting of vintage ports considered landmarks by the Symington family yesterday. (Yes, not the perfect...
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The Wall Street Journal has this cracker of a story about the suits filed last week in New York by...
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I was amazed on my recent visit to Australia by how rapidly restaurant wine lists there have embraced serious, top...
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A Tasting in the Name of Peace of Lebanese and Israeli wines had been planned at London’s Vinopolis next week...
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So, who will be winemaker at Domaine René Engel of Vosne-Romanée if the rumours are true that François Pinault, owner...
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Here in the sweltering Languedoc I am labouring away at my desk nourished by birdsong and the knowledge that Chef...
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I’ve been trying to find the time to write about a fascinating session at the recent MW Symposium in Napa...
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I’ve been trying to find the time to write about a fascinating session at the recent MW Symposium in Napa...
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Allow me to taint this so-far-World-Cup-free-zone by wondering here which team Dirk Niepoort supported during Sunday night’s terribly ill-tempered scrap...
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I’ve spent much of this week and last tasting German wine and am very excited about the 2005s and increasingly...
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A quick flip through today’s Harpers and Off Licence News reveals the following: The value of wine sold through UK...
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Well we did rather wonder how the bourbon-based company Jim Beam was going to digest the Cockburn’s port and Harvey...
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Okay, here’s the inside story of the famous Paris re-run, if you’re not thoroughly bored with it all by now...
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Next month the EU is expected to announce a dramatically revised package of measures designed to achieve profound reform of...
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Just in from Farr Vintners, the London wine merchant that seems to have adopted a fairly confrontational attitude to selling...
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Bordeaux rumour has it that Jean-Bernard Delmas, long-serving but now retired manager of Ch Haut-Brion, is to be engaged by...
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