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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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We used to think Margaret River, the jewel in Western Australia’s wine crown, was a sleepy little backwater but it’s...
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Today is a good day for wine lovers to use Narbonne rail station, Carcassonne airport and enter or exit the...
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The Emperor of Wine , a biography of Robert Parker by journalist Elin McCoy, is published this month in the...
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Few tears will be shed at the demise of one of the ugliest but at one stage one of the...
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At this year’s Vinexpo in Bordeaux, a panel of high-profile wine tasters were given the job of roaming the halls...
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Every year the excellent wine faculties of Adelaide/Roseworthy, Charles Sturt/Wagga Wagga and several other Australian universities churn out scores of...
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What a walkover! In this year’s International Wine & Spirit Competition, the annual wine competition that has been held in...
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It’s boiling hot in western Europe for the first time this year so it must be Vinexpo time. Today’s temperatures...
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It’s not often that you turn up for a tasting in a tiny wine shop well outside central London at...
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No-one could love good French wine more than I do, and it’s precisely because of this that the French themselves...
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The Faugères domaine of Jean-Marie Fourrier, the talented young Gevrey Chambertin winemaker, has been up for sale for six months...
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‘Jacobs Creek trounces Trimbach’ could, roughly, be the headline for a fascinating blind tasting exercise staged at Australia House in...
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Quote of the week: 'The world wine market in 2003 would have been in balance only if the US, Australia...
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So Ch Lagrange is out today, at a price that's still £10 more than the 2002 price but, at around...
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Owner of Ch Angelus of St Emilion Hubert de Boüard de Laforest tells me he has invested in South Africa...
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