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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
• 7 min read
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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
• 3 min read
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From iron ore to flor in South Africa's wild west
On South Africa’s remote West Coast an unlikely fortified-wine revival is taking place. Malu Lambert reports. Saldanha’s castle is an improbable one. As you stream into the West Coast outpost...
Guest contributor
Thursday 11 December 2025
• 1 min read
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International Sherry Week begins today. Above, partners in sherry, and an increasing number of unfortified wines, Jesús Barquín (left) and...
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Sherry: the cult wine that only the coolest people get… Tamlyn writes Sherry has perhaps only one thing in common...
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An extraordinary wine to end an extraordinary year.
From $39.99, €48.75, 140 Bulgarian lev, £63.56, 79 Swiss francs, 10,780 Japanese...
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Amazing sherry bargains, lovely but unloved sweet wines and some enthralling ports, which should be served in glasses larger and...
Wines of the week
Our 967th wine of the week is a sweet sherry for only the most enlightened wine lovers.
From 4,590 Hungarian...
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Strong wines aplenty here – all deserving of your attention.
Julia writes The Big Fortified Tasting, or BFT, has become...
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Ferran falls for the wild and woolly wines of an exciting new group of Spanish wine producers.
A formal definition...
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A version of this article about a most unusual wine merchant is published by the Financial Times. See also Tips...
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Tam's taste buds tangle with an F-35 fighter-jet of a wine. It's exactly 200 years since sherry producer Barbadillo was...
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Master of Wine student Young Shi has returned to her native China and reports on the ups and mainly downs...
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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...
Hemming's spittoon
Richard revives his Spittoon column with the curious story of the Jerezanos' other business.
Which traditional white wine is aged...
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A history and geography lesson centred on one of Spain's oldest wine regions. It's hot. It's dry. And it deserves...
Nick on restaurants
Something fishy for a change. This summer I lost my fear of langoustines. I was never actually afraid of ordering...
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Wines can go from bargains to extravagances remarkably quickly. I put my head on the block and suggest some future...
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