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2022 bordeaux four years on – white wines
The first of three reports on this year’s blind tasting of significant four-year-old bordeaux. See Bordeaux 2022 – a guide for everything we’ve published on this vintage. Above, Tom Parker...
Jancis Robinson
Monday 9 February 2026
• 3 min read
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Jancis's diary – May 2025
Mainly some great tastings in London but a fascinating trip to Bordeaux, too. The scariest thing I did this month was read a book called Waste Wars, all about what...
Jancis Robinson
Monday 2 June 2025
• 1 min read
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Great sweet white bordeaux may be unfashionable but it will have the last laugh. A version of this article is...
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A version of this article about a bordeaux vintage not to be dismissed out of hand is published by the...
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The final of three reports on this year's Southwold-on-Thames blind tasting of 2017 bordeaux. See Tom's reports on right-bank reds...
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A second helping of bordeaux 2010s, this time tasted blind. See also BI's 2010 bordeaux showcase, and this guide to...
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We begin the week's series of tasting articles on this year's Southwold-on-Thames blind tasting of the 2016 Bordeaux vintage with...
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Tasting notes from the latest blind tasting in the cellars of Buckingham Palace.
Our latest task as members of the...
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Our coverage of Bordeaux 2018 en primeur comes to a sticky end today with the sweet wines of Sauternes and...
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This third and final report on a comprehensive blind tasting of 2009 bordeaux at 10 years old is a look...
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The first of three tasting articles re-examining more than 250 of the most important Bordeaux 2015s. More tomorrow and the...
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See this guide to all our coverage of the 2017 vintage in Bordeaux. This picture, taken at the Bordeaux Gold...
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22 March 2018 We are republishing free the second of Bill Blatch's three-part report on Bordeaux's difficult 2017 vintage as...
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See this guide to all of our coverage of Bordeaux 2014, including yesterday's right-bank reds and Wednesday's left-bank reds...
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See also these tasting notes on the right bank and left bank reds, this overview of the tasting, and this...
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A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See tasting notes on more than 50 particularly...
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