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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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Hold on for a major announcement any day now about the sale of a top Bordeaux château to one of...
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I recently had a chance to try out what seems to be latest gadget designed to add years to a...
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Julia Harding writes: It may come as a bit of a surprise to some that the Institut National des Appellations...
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Mel Knox, barrel broker extraordinaire of San Francisco, files details of the movie everyone’s talking about. The third in a...
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The Oxford University Wine Circle is one of that famous old university’s most popular and senior societies for students. It...
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In Hong Kong I bumped into Tim Mondavi who was there, like me, because of a wine-related fundraiser and charity...
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Last October I reported on a blind tasting in London of notable non vintage-dated champagnes in which Krug Grande Cuvée...
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Just who is left aboard the good ship Petaluma? First its founder Brian Croser jumps ship and now its famed...
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Rodrigo's account of a recent meal in Brazil inspires the following extremely self-indulgent post which should on no account be...
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This story may be apocryphal but it rings true to me and illustrates how illuminating and valuable blind tasting can...
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Kemeny's ( www.kemenys.com.au), the largest independent wine retailer in Sydney and probably Australia, is currently offering free flights within Australia...
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Larry Stone, the Fulbright scholar, Maitre Sommelier (approved by the French) and Master Sommelier who was substantially responsible for the...
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There must be some red faces at certain wine merchants, I would imagine, now that the UK government has done...
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It would seem that at long last good quality German wine is making an impression on the UK market. AC...
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Just as James Halliday was delivering his fiery Wine Press Club Lecture last Friday, Gilbert Labour, our Australian dentist-cum-wine judge...
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