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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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Sweet and strong wines for the 2025 festive season
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 13 December 2025
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Wines of Chile make the following announcement: The Third Annual Wines of Chile Awards that have just taken place in...
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For detailed tasting notes on 220 wines of all three colours see purple pages. Midwinter is a fine time of...
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In the second of his two reports on Bordeaux’s extraordinary 2005 vintage, Bill Blatch of Vintex SA describes how the...
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As usual Bill Blatch of Bordeaux merchants Vintex ( vintex@vintex.fr) has generously published the most detailed report I know of...
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By popular request I reprise this topic after a two year break. Many of you, I know, have wine collections...
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I'm delighted to say that our tasting notes search is back, where it should be on the purple menu, available...
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You may have seen the photographs of a flooded Napa Valley last weekend. The waters now seem to be receding...
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Whenever I conduct a tasting or give a talk about wine, I try to give the audience something useful but...
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I’m delighted to announce that I have with great pleasure broken a long-established habit and taken on a fulltime assistant...
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Tomorrow, Saturday 17 dec 05, I'll be publishing no fewer than three articles about the king of Riesling, Egon Muller...
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Present buying paranoia is with us. At least half of the population is wondering what on earth to buy for...
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There have recently been great ructions and uncertainties in the drinks publishing business in the UK. The consumer magazine Decanter’s...
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