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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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Jancis's diary - September 2025
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Wednesday 1 October 2025
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19 October 2017 The death toll as a result of these terrible fires in northern California wine country has risen...
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In 2009 Dan Petroski launched the entirely white-wine-focused brand Massican, sourcing fruit from iconic Napa Valley vineyards. In 2012, fruit...
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18 May The story below is likely to have important ramifications for the US wine business, so we thought we...
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The exceptionally heavy and much-appreciated rains seen in California this winter have people through the region feeling as though California’s...
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The 31st entrant into our wine writing competition, Kathy Merchant, hails from Cincinnati, Ohio, and describes herself as follows:
I...
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Fifteen years ago, at the height of wine critic Robert Parker’s influence and fame, WIRED magazine wrote an article about...
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Updated substantially on 5 January Just hours after the shock news that somms' darling Clos Rougeard of Saumur had been...
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In the late 1970s, geophysicist Marion King Hubbard introduced the world to a concept that later became known as ‘peak...
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29 September 2016 We are republishing this two-year-old article about the Napa Valley wine producer Spottswoode in memory of its...
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See also Napa Valley Cabernets – depressing? and Napa Valley sub-appellations – heartening? With its diversity of soils and mesoclimates...
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Elaine’s review last week of Cabernets with the general Napa Valley appellation stirred up some strong reactions, including on our...
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In the first of two major reports on current releases of Napa Valley appellation Cabernets, her first for JancisRobinson.com, Elaine...
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In our family we were particularly sad to learn that Margrit Biever Mondavi died at the end of last week...
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Coombsville just south east of the town of Napa (see this map) became an official appellation in 2011 and since...
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A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. When his grandson asks him why he is...
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See also That Paris judgment 40 years on. Jancis writes On this Fourth of July it seems appropriate to consider...
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