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Don't quote me 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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Don't quote me A Tasting in the Name of Peace of Lebanese and Israeli wines had been planned at London’s Vinopolis next week...
Don't quote me So, who will be winemaker at Domaine René Engel of Vosne-Romanée if the rumours are true that François Pinault, owner...
Don't quote me Here in the sweltering Languedoc I am labouring away at my desk nourished by birdsong and the knowledge that Chef...
Don't quote me I’ve been trying to find the time to write about a fascinating session at the recent MW Symposium in Napa...
Don't quote me I’ve been trying to find the time to write about a fascinating session at the recent MW Symposium in Napa...
Don't quote me 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...
Don't quote me I’ve spent much of this week and last tasting German wine and am very excited about the 2005s and increasingly...
Don't quote me A quick flip through today’s Harpers and Off Licence News reveals the following: The value of wine sold through UK...
Don't quote me Well we did rather wonder how the bourbon-based company Jim Beam was going to digest the Cockburn’s port and Harvey...
Don't quote me Okay, here’s the inside story of the famous Paris re-run, if you’re not thoroughly bored with it all by now...
Don't quote me Next month the EU is expected to announce a dramatically revised package of measures designed to achieve profound reform of...
Don't quote me Just in from Farr Vintners, the London wine merchant that seems to have adopted a fairly confrontational attitude to selling...
Don't quote me Bordeaux rumour has it that Jean-Bernard Delmas, long-serving but now retired manager of Ch Haut-Brion, is to be engaged by...
Don't quote me Journalists, don’t you hate ‘em? We who have the power to put a spin on things, don’t like it at...
Don't quote me Lots of mutterings about just how much money founder Jean Phillips may have garnered from the sale of her Screaming...
Don't quote me Hold on for a major announcement any day now about the sale of a top Bordeaux château to one of...
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