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How to drink less wine
De-alcoholised wine is a poor substitute for the real thing. But there are one or two palatable alternatives. A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Above...
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 3 January 2026
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Shadows over northern California
Demand, and prices, are falling. A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Above, the view from Smith Madrone on Napa Valley’s Spring Mountain in early November...
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 27 December 2025
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Wines to squirrel away
Some wine really does get better with age, and not all of it is expensive. A slightly shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. One of...
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 20 December 2025
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At this year’s annual Wine & Spirit Education Trust lecture, Christopher Carson, former chairman of Constellation Europe and chairman of...
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Carol and Jürgen Keller were in IT sales and marketing but he was brought up in the Rheingau and long...
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Bodybuilder wines are everywhere, but do we have to have bodybuilder bottles too? Enough already! I have kept quiet on...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. Here’s a burning question: where in...
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Here are some assorted comments on the 2006 harvest kindly supplied from some of Europe's wine regions: James Lawther of...
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...and I feel as though an awful lot of it was consumed in our company. But I'm too depressed to...
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Message at 2pm Oct 4 from Uncorked, the lively fine wine merchant in Broadgate in London’s financial district: “The tasting...
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For what I hope are obvious reasons I don’t alas find the time to read many wine blogs. I know...
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The Institute of Masters of Wine is holding auctions of fine wines and some very varied promises donated by MWs...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times . See also detailed tasting notes...
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The annual Gambero Rosso guide Italian Wines has just announced this year’s list of its Tre Bicchiere (three glass) wines...
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Today brings the German 2005 offer of the estimable family firm of Tanners of Shrewsbury on the border between England...
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We had our special tasting evening at the Financial Times last week to celebrate the launch of the third edition...
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On Saturday I wrote about the mechanics of putting together the new, third edition of The Oxford Companion to Wine...
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Nick is not best pleased. Having carried a box of six of the latest Oxford Companions to Wine weighing 3...
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19 sep: Apparently there were a good thousand people at a raucous send-off for Len. Speeches were given by his...
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