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Sweet and strong wines for the 2025 festive season
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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Sherry, port and Madeira in profusion. This is surely the time of year when you can allow yourself to take the plunge into these very special wines. I tasted quite...
Jancis Robinson
Friday 12 December 2025
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We too rarely have the chance to taste vintage port at optimum maturity. But this tasting of 63 of them...
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A cleverly stimulating alternative to the usual marking of the days leading up to Christmas.
Towards the end of 2020...
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My final set of hand-picked recommendations follows those for fizz, white wines and red wines. A version of this article...
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Prior to my list of sweet and/or strong recommendations to be published on Saturday, here are some of the sweet...
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Charles Symington of Symington Family Estates is in the forefront of the fight to adapt to climate change. See the...
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David Guimaraens of The Fladgate Partnership (see our notes on his 2018s recently added to our 2018 port article), like...
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7 August 2020 I have now been able to add tasting notes for the three offerings from The Fladgate Partnership...
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The haunting memories of VE Day evoked last weekend reminded me of a memorable dinner in Paris in 1995 to...
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‘British territorial cheeses are not designed for a thin slice as the 12th course. They are for a cheese meal...
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Take advantage of some of the best deals around. A version of this article is published by the Financial Times...
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A strong seasonal recommendation from Julia, suitable for both post-electoral celebrations and commiserations.
From €18, $21.22, 199.75 Danish kroner, CA$39.99...
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A collection of tasting notes, including some of the best-value ports currently available in the UK. A tasting of the...
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Winemaker Charles Symington, taking on the role of vintage reporter from his brother Paul, sends this forthright summary of current...
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Jessica Ochoco, on a paddleboard, feels the Douro magic. See this guide to all the entries in our travel writing...
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A second collection of recently declared wines from this excellent and generally declared vintage.
As promised in Port 2017 –...
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We're publishing this collection of tasting notes on this first tranche of the just-declared 2017 vintage ports as soon as...
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