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Wine discoveries – November 2025
Wines for the festive season, pulled from our last month of tastings. Above, fog over the California vineyards of Haliotide, a young winery focused exclusively on single-vineyard sparkling wines. Every...
Team JR
Tuesday 2 December 2025
• 6 min read
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Sparkling wines for the 2025 festive season
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 22 November 2025
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Unexpected, excellent and affordable, Austria’s sparkling wines are worth stocking up on. Above, bottles resting in the cellar of Weingut...
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A champagne that should be on your radar far beyond the holidays, from €26.50, $39.99, £47.95. Above, Clément Préaux surveys...
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The first of four collections of suggested wines for the Christmas holidays. Look out for others on the next three...
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Reviews of 127 champagnes and other sparkling wines tasted recently by Tam and Jancis. Image © Leif Carlsson, courtesy of...
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South Africa should be the role model for any region challenged by heat and drought, Tam says, as it has...
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BC-based writer Arnica Rowan heads to the other side of Canada to report on its vibrant sparkling-wine industry, and Jancis...
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Excellent traditional-method fizz from a producer spared the devastation of Serra Gaúcha earlier this year but fully committed to helping...
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A sparkling wine that will impress even Prosecco sceptics, and delight everyone else. Above, the dramatic hills that define the...
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Plus relief for British Columbia wineries reeling from this winter’s devastating freeze; a new super-light sparkling wine bottle and news...
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A month of contrasts.
After a busy start, life has really, really calmed down for me this month. Which is...
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Fine wine manager Tom King writes this entertaining entry to our 2024 wine writing competition about a sparkling-wine-related mishap. See...
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Is Zero Dosage a good thing? What's the ideal sweetness level in champagne? Read on. The Drappier family above, left...
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20 June 2024 For our Throwback Thursday item this week we’re making this article, originally published for JancisRobinson.com members only...
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England's wine industry is booming, and with its maturation has come as many growing pains as there are great wines...
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A pairing that proves that sparkling wine can match just about anything – and a tip on a tool that...
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The fruits of several giant tastings chez UK wine retailers … A version of this article is published by the...
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