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The Jancis Robinson Story, episode 6 – maturing
The penultimate episode of a seven-part podcast series giving the definitive story of Jancis’s life and career so far. For the rest of the series, click here. This episode is...
Richard Hemming MW
Sunday 14 December 2025
• 29 min read
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From iron ore to flor in South Africa's wild west
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Thursday 11 December 2025
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Matching wine with Asian food, part 4 – floral/fragrant and citric
Richard Hemming MW
Thursday 11 December 2025
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New York-based Charles Curtis MW, fine wine advisor and writer formerly with Christie's, outlines some harsh truths about champagne sales...
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An exploration of the southern Rhône beyond Châteauneuf. See the accompanying tasting notes here. And see this guide for our...
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Samantha reports on some welcome fine weather. Eventually.
Ah winemaking! How romantic…
I just soaped my hair and watched a...
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First-picked 2019 Chardonnay grapes shown here. Fingers crossed for drier weather. Click on the tag to find last week's despatch...
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Another revealing encounter at San Polino outside Montalcino and praise for their 2014.
At the beginning of August I visited...
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Samantha Cole-Johnson, who submitted the recently published Portland for wine lovers in our 2019 wine travel writing competition ( vote...
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Walter comments, reluctantly, on this year's vintage in Italy.
Later that same day The first official estimates for the total...
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12 September 2019 Remember to vote for your favourite entry in our summer travel writing competition. You have until midnight...
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A look at the most pressing issues on the island today. See also Santorini tasting notes part 1 and part...
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Fresh(?) from tasting myriad GGs in Wiesbaden, Michael tells us what everyone in German wine is talking about.
Is it...
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Vineyards among the boulders on this windswept Cycladic island are starting to get into their stride and seem likely to...
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As I write in the western Languedoc on Sunday 4 August, I am desperate to write this before the temperature...
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Elaine Chukan Brown visits Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon's cradle of dreams, his new vineyard well off the beaten track...
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The ambitions and challenges of the Japanese region of Nagano in central Honshu. See also Nagano – the tasting notes...
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Important changes on the Japanese wine scene.
During my visits to Yamanashi and Nagano (report next week), I began to...
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Terrible news and pictures from Priorat, Aragón and Gredos. I am writing this post with great sadness, overwhelmed by the...
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