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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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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. Twenty years ago wine producers around...
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San Francisco barrel broker Mel Knox wrote this in 2001 and, in the noble spirit of recycling, has sent it...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. During 2008 the fine wine market...
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Two plants are crucial to modern wine production: the vine, of course, and the oak tree. Yet it seems to...
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Someone was asking about eastern European oaks recently in Your turn on purple pages. Coincidentally I have just received this...
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