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Free for all Burgundy 2024 – guide to our coverage

Everything we’ve published on this challenging vintage. Find all our published wine reviews here. Above, the town of Meursault in the Côte de Beaune, viewed from Les Grands Charrons vineyard...

Team JR Monday 12 January 2026 • 1 min read

View over vineyards of Madeira sea in background

Free for all Madeira – the great survivor

Jancis Robinson Saturday 10 January 2026 • 1 min read

Free for all Burgundy 2024 – UK merchants making offers

Team JR Thursday 8 January 2026 • 1 min read

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The story of Girolate, Entre-Deux-Mers superstar

Exit 24 from the Bordeaux ring road is not the most familiar to wine lovers but I took it the...

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Europe goes tropical

It really is very hot indeed down here in the Languedoc and in all of southern France, including Bordeaux, as...

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Exploring cooler Sonoma – Russian River Valley

Compared to the humidity of a London heatwave, the climate of northern California is a dream: revitalising dry heat with...

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Wine shelves and restaurant cellars cleared throughout Russia

Bisso Atanassov sends us this translation of an article he has just published in Russian in Simple Wine News about...

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Summer whites with real character...

It seems to me that there is a special quality to the sort of wines we like to drink in...

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Farewell H P Olmo

At 5.30pm last Friday, just as those of us at the Masters of Wine symposium down the road were listening...

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UK wine educators asked to get a licence

More nonsense from the British government. After much reading of the fine print of their recent Licensing Act, it has...

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Charity wine auction in Paris tomorrow!

For 10 months Erwan Thill and Stanislas Rocoffort de Vinnière toured the world’s vineyards and wine markets with the aim...

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The German 2005 growing season

See also my tasting notes on nearly 200 German 2005s tasted so far. The second-born has just left university, so...

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Austria triumphs again – with Sauvignon Blanc

These comparative tastings of Austria’s top wines against international competition are getting to be rather boring. We have already had...

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Zork talk

Several of you have written in response to my most recent rant about plastic stoppers to ask whether I knew...

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Despatches from three continents

Bad news comes in threes, it seems. In the US Al Brounstein of Diamond Creek, 86, arguably the Napa Valley’s...

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Theise on what can be so special about wine

I finally met Terry Theise, gifted specialist importer of German and Austrian wines and growers' champagnes, in May. He had...

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The weird and the wonderful from Germany

See also a detailed report on the 2005 vintage in Germany and my first set of nearly 200 tasting notes...

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Murphy-Goode goes to Jess Jackson

Jackson Family Wines, the new name for the Sonoma company owned by Jess Jackson of Kendall Jackson, has acquired Murphy-Goode...

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Europe's Agriculture Commissioner urges EU to make New World style wines

Mariann Fischer Boel, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development made the following statement today, signalling her determination to sort...