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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 One recurring theme during my recent visit to Germany was vineyard labour. Just who nowadays is prepared to work those...
Don't quote me How do you feel about drinking wine from a glass without a stem? I ask because Riedel, wine glass designers...
Don't quote me How do you feel about drinking wine from a glass without a stem? I ask because Riedel, wine glass designers...
Don't quote me One of the most enjoyable and interesting dinners so far this year took place in March during a weekend spent...
Don't quote me Red bordeaux from the 1982 vintage has reached that daunting stage when it is so valuable that many of those...
Don't quote me One of Britain's more moribund wine specialist retailers Unwins announced yesterday the launch of a potentially exciting and revitalising initiative...
Don't quote me I thought you might like to know which were the most popular wines with the room of 50 tasters when...
Don't quote me I hope you will not be surprised if I say that until today I have never ever received a cheque...
Don't quote me Quite extraordinary what you learn from a morning’s reading. In Beirut now, according to the FT magazine, there is now...
Don't quote me Amid France's current spate of introspective navel-gazing about the dire state of the market for French wine both at home...
Don't quote me Perhaps I was moving in extremely selective circles during my recent trip to the West Coast but I kept coming...
Don't quote me Britain's most famous supermarket – sorry, upmarket retailer – has an Italian promotion on at the moment, offering 20%off all...
Don't quote me The American wine market seems to me even more plagued by generalisations – especially those pertaining to vintage assessments. The...
Don't quote me The formidable chatelaine of Ch Pichon Lalande, May-Eliane de Lencquesaing has been in love with South Africa for some time...
Don't quote me Well I did have my lunch with Paul Symington, as trailed at the end of my piece on Port v...
Don't quote me Last week I dropped in on the Hungarians' annual London tasting, in what I believe is the capital's finest setting...
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