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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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According to Anthony Barton, practically the only cru class é owner to actually live in the M édoc, his underperforming...
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My article Making wine not stronger but better has been published in a dozen or so publications around the world...
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Wine producers in New Zealand’s premier Sauvignon Blanc region Marlborough were shocked last week to find that the winner of...
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06 sep Mondavi employees are apparently currently being asked to draw up complete inventories of everything in their bailiwick. Not...
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The managing director of Australian synthetic cork manufacturer Nukorc – sorry, NuKorc – finally caught up with my article Will...
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A fascinating small dinner this summer in London showed just how good the old English bottlings could be. As well...
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US importer of fine German wines, David Schildknecht, a frequent contributor to purple pages, files this report on how German...
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You may remember my less-than-enthusiastic review of William Echikson's book Noble Rot: A Bordeaux Wine Revolution. I was invited on...
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Strangely spirited There was a time, back in the late 1970s, when I edited a magazine called Wine & Spirit...
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What better proof could there be of the Renaissance of Ros é (first trumpeted here more than two years ago...
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There is great joy in being back in our little village in the Languedoc for the summer, even if the...
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We all know by now that Australian 2004 grape harvest was enormous (see Drowning in wine). But proportionately the New...
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Several of you have asked about the long-touted new wine magazine The World of Fine Wine and now, at last...
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The two most creative ideas for selling wine that I have seen recently have both been in Asia. You know...
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I don't know about you, but I am particularly intrigued that an outfit as traditional and pivotal as Domaine Leflaive...
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In Piedmont last week I took part in a big annual Barbera tasting at which the wines are served blind...
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