On the first of the month we had dinner at the popular Devonshire with two wine professionals on their way to Wine Paris: Michael Hill Smith MW from Australia (via a not-very-snowy Aspen) and David Millman of Domaine Drouhin in Oregon. It was a great pleasure to introduce them to the delights of the Xinomavro grape variety, via Thymiopoulos’s regular 2022, and to be treated at the end of our meal to Roquefort and...
Jancis's diary – February 2026
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A short month in London with just one sortie, to Barcelona for 48 hours. Nick took this picture of Jancis and Ferran Adrià of El Bulli.
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