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Go on, spoil yourself! A version of this article is published by the Financial Times . Above, my glasses being filled with Château d’Yquem 1975 at our celebratory dinner at...
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 13 December 2025
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Jancis's diary – October 2025
Two fabulous weekends, and a lot of tasting. The Tuscan weekend is exemplified by the outdoor Sunday lunch pictured above (unthinkable in London). I write this just before taking off...
Jancis Robinson
Monday 3 November 2025
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See dozens of tasting notes of...
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These madeiras were tasted either in the lodges of the Madeira Wine Company (Blandy's/Cossart Gordon/Leacock/Miles), D'Oliveiras or Barbeito on the...
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These pictures show just part of the archive of sales ledgers bequeathed to the Madeira Wine Company by Noel Cossart...
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The week before last, at the top of a cliff running sheer down to the Atlantic, I took part in...
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All sorts of things were amazing about last night’s tasting of great madeira at the top of a cliff overlooking...
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In a laudable example of bandwagons being pulled by hobby horses, wine aficionados have been showing palpable concern for the...
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It's crisp and cold in London today, perfect weather for one of my favourite wines, madeira, wonderfully crisp yet warming...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.This is the time of year when...
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Written by Mel Jones. I’m feeling pretty fortified at the moment. I ran a tawny port tasting a couple of...
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In the third and last of our profiles of great fortified wines, Richard Hemming looks at one of the most...
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The death has just been announced of John Cossart (chairman of Henriques & Henriques Madeira), who died of a sudden...
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Patrick Grubb MW ran Sotheby’s wine department 1973-1984 but now runs Patrick Grubb Wine Selections (tel +44 1869 340229) specialising...
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Miami, 1 March – Last night Dr Robert Maliner, who may well have the world's finest collection of old madeira...
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See inside information for a précis of a quite amazing tasting of old madeiras in Miami on 28 February, 2003...
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This table was kindly supplied by Danny Cameron, who works with Raymond Reynolds, the UK importer of many madeiras.
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I rarely leave a wine region itching to write a computer program, but so it was as I flew the...
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