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Jancis's diary – May 2026
Foreign parts feature heavily this month but that’s far from all. The villa pictured above overlooks Tangier. I hope you noticed that I hardly travelled at all at the beginning...
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Richard takes allegorical aim at Pinot Noir (with apologies to any devout readers).
In the church of wine, Pinot Noir...
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One of Italy's most distinctive, ancient and aesthetically pleasing training forms is unjustly burdened with a reputation for producing dilute...
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Walter reports from the European country furthest along the path to relaxing a really stringent lockdown, and is far from...
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Dave McIntyre, wine columnist for The Washington Post , went to British Columbia last year and files this report on...
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Katia Nussbaum brings us up to date with her coronadiary on day 40 of lockdown on her San Polino estate...
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This year the pandemic-inspired lockdown put paid to the Bordeaux en primeur campaign that should now be underway. So when...
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Tam goes on a food and English wine matching mission.
Our 19th wedding anniversary was supposed to be spent overlooking...
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John Barker is a New Zealand-based lawyer and consultant. He has a long involvement in international wine law and policy...
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Matthew Hayes follows up his report on the effects of climate change on the Côte d'Or with interviews at Domaines...
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Contrasting views on a new movie with a wine-related theme, from wine writer Maggie Rosen and from Jancis.
Maggie Rosen...
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This week Samantha gets some devastating news and has to decide what to do.
This week seemed to bring more...
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A fight, and some better news in Italy. Katia Nussbaum continues her Tuscan wine producer's diary. Click on the Katia's...
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Montalcino winegrower Katia Nussbaum on hair dye, tying up young vines, keeping apart within one household and disappearing eggs in...
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In which things become even more personally worrying for Katia. For previous diary entries, click on the Katia's diary tag...
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Katia Nussbaum continues her daily diary under lockdown in Italy with some of her family at her Montalcino estate, San...
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