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Jancis's diary – July 2025
Winners and dinners and much else besides. Above, the Supreme Champion trophy at this year's Wine GB Awards. Since 1989 when we bought a house in the Languedoc we have...
Jancis Robinson
Thursday 31 July 2025
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Book reviews
It's all about reactions… book reviews on the chemistry of wine up next.
Jean Lenoir Le Nez du Vin –...
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30 December 2021 See a submission from Flextanks added to the end of this article.
6 March 2021 See a...
Hemming's spittoon
Richard revives his Spittoon column with the curious story of the Jerezanos' other business.
Which traditional white wine is aged...
Inside information
In Oak – the cooper's view Matthew Hayes profiled François Frères. Here he talks to Eric Rousseau, Christophe Roumier and...
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In the first of three articles this week about oak, Matthew Hayes shares the secrets of making, and selling, barrels...
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In her penultimate despatch Samantha Cole-Johnson is considering her next move, and the impact of different barrels.
This vintage is...
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The rise and rise of a small Austrian cooperage business. A version of this article is published by the Financial...
Wines of the week
Ferran's wine of the week last Friday is a hard act to follow but here's an aromatic and well-priced Portuguese...
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Samantha explains hoses, presses and barrelling this week.
I don’t know how wine was made before hoses. They’re literally everywhere...
Wines of the week
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If you have ever been sceptical about the combination of Sauvignon...
Tasting articles
This tasting of older vintages of oaked Sauvignon Blanc from Bordeaux and the Loire turned out to be a classic...
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This article is also published in the Financial Times. In my little puddle of vinous life I am becoming aware...
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This article was originally published on Purple Pages, in the Don't quote me section reserved for opinion rather than news...
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Gareth Skidmore lives in Burgundy, where he works as a translator and teaches wine-business English to Burgundians. St-Romain – a...
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I've known Peter Sisseck ever since a very cold morning in December 1998. I used to take advantage of a...
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Although it may seem from my previous reports on the Langhe (see Aldo Conterno and Giuseppe Rinaldi) that I am...
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