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Dar Sinclair, Tangier
Don't quote me 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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Samples of young 2020 Barossa wine made variously from Mataro, Shiraz and Grenache
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