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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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The formidable chatelaine of Ch Pichon Lalande, May-Eliane de Lencquesaing has been in love with South Africa for some time...
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Well I did have my lunch with Paul Symington, as trailed at the end of my piece on Port v...
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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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To continue my theme of examining wines for drinkability (see wine news), I thought for once I'd report briefly on...
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To continue my theme of examining wines for drinkability (see wine news), I thought for once I'd report briefly on...
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A report in yesterday's edition of the redoutable trade weekly Off Licence News (never far from my bedside) highlights the...
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At a tasting of Australian white wines for British Airways last week I was really quite shocked at how old...
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As I said in your turn not too long ago, I took part in a particularly esoteric tasting recently –...
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All signs point to a softening of wine prices across the board, I am happy to say. Just about every...
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The port business, or as those who run it still quaintly call it, 'the port wine trade', is doing brilliantly...
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New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc is a funny wine. The average British wine drinker absolutely adores it while wine professionals find...
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My spies tell me that in the recent round of negotiations between the US and EU, the Americans, who are...
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Feedback as a result of my recent purple prose 2003 story on the Wine Spectator Restaurant Awards set me thinking...
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Britain's dominant and financially hugely successful supermarket Tesco has been a pioneer of screwcaps for its wine range. It offers...
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Research from Ernest & Julio Gallo wine has found that 92 per cent of the population suffer from a huge...
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Being described in a glowing Washington Post review of the World Atlas of Wine as 'undoubtedly the cheekiest wine writer...
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