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Jancis's diary – November and December 2025
Jancis Robinson
Friday 2 January 2026
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Andy Howard MW looks in detail at recent developments at Marks & Spencer.
M&S is currently a business in the...
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Tam shares another of her super-creative food and and wine matches. I'd planned the meal, bought the food, marked the...
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Our retail specialist Andy Howard MW reports on Tesco's latest wine tasting. He will be reporting on their rivals on...
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Tam's been food and wine matching again... Something intrigued me while I was at the Wines of Hungary Furmint tasting...
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Richard tests a long-awaited, crowdfunded, new bit of wine kit.
There are dozens of wine-preservation gadgets on the market, most...
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Julia tastes the results of the AWRI's outstanding research into flavour compounds but can't ignore this niggling question. The Australian...
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Walter suggests a way forward for Italy's most famous traditional-method fizz.
Like anyone with a keen interest in wine, I...
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The Sommelier’s Atlas of Taste A field guide to the great wines of EuropeRajat Parr and Jordan MackayPublished by Ten...
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Report on our recent workshops on wine faults.
You wouldn't find music lovers or musicians, art collectors or artists, bibliophiles...
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The last in Andy Howard MW's stocktake of the UK supermarkets' wine ranges. Click on the Supermarkets tag to find...
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Our retail specialist Andy Howard MW continues his Friday series on the UK supermarkets.
The rapid growth of Lidl shows...
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Our retail specialist Andy Howard MW tackles the behemoth of UK retailing whose wine range is dominated by other big...
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