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Jancis's diary – January 2026
January is always a heavy month for professional wine tastings. This year Jancis fortified herself beforehand. 2026 got off to a truly delightful start when Nick and I spent the...
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Monday 2 February 2026
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Jancis's diary – November and December 2025
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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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Contrasting views on a new movie with a wine-related theme, from wine writer Maggie Rosen and from Jancis.
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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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More from Katia Nussbaum in Montalcino as she tries to navigate her way through lockdown. Click on the Katia's diary...
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Montalcino winegrower Katia Nussbaum continues her very personal diary during lockdown at her estate. See days 1 and 2 for...
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Some more memories of the expert on wine tasting. See also memories from others at the bottom of this article...
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Walter picks over what’s good and bad about this latest vintage. See his t asting notes on 127 regular bottles...
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A foretaste of Scharzhofberger Trockenbeerenauslese 2018, and what's going on in German wine.
Egon Müller was in London last Friday...
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This year’s Outstanding WSET Alumnus (pictured) asked the eight Masters of Wine most closely associated with Spain to nominate five...
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Walter, an ex art history student, muses on the current, fluid state of Italian wine. The natural wine debate has...
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