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Rioja at 100 – a personal look
Ferran finds Rioja as vibrant as it has ever been over its hundred-year existence as Spain’s preeminent wine region. In 2025, Rioja celebrated its centenary, and to mark the anniversary...
Ferran Centelles
Friday 6 March 2026
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Santorini – investing in the future
Julia Harding MW
Wednesday 4 March 2026
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Erbamat – Franciacorta's future?
Walter Speller
Wednesday 18 February 2026
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On Saturday we published Nick’s account of our most recent visit to the hotel-restaurant La Beaugravière in Mondragon in the...
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Gavin Quinney of Ch Bauduc (pictured) sends this report of the story so far. Follow his 2012 vintage tweets @GavinQuinney...
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After 11 hours of non-stop wine tasting, including one long lunch, it seems impossible to contemplate dinner. Wine writers Christina...
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Unfortunately the six-letter word we hear most frequently about Spain lately is 'crisis'. The news is certainly not good, and...
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There was a veritable menagerie of wine tasted and recorded here on JancisRobinson.com in July – over 200 that scored...
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Yohan Castaing writes: Most French vineyards are developing much later than they were in 2011, which was admittedly an exceptionally...
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Pablo Álvarez (pictured) of Ribera del Duero's most respected bodega Vega Sicilia has finally announced what the two wines produced...
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When Jancis suggested I write a short piece about the onward march of IGP in France, after I had spent...
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To mark the official commencement of my dissertation studies, I created a shortcut folder on my desktop. Here now was...
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