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Wine discoveries – June 2026
25 ways to keep refreshed despite the heat. Last week Europe experienced its worst June heatwave on record; this week, the US is set to surpass heat records in cities...
Team JR
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Opus One 1979–2000
A vertical tasting takes Jancis back to the groundbreaking beginning of this emblematic California red. Left to right in a private room in 67 Pall Mall, London: Margaret Rand, Michael...
Jancis Robinson
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To complement Michael's reports on his tastings in Germany – see this guide to our coverage of the small, frost-reduced...
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The official summary of the 2017 vintage in Beaujolais seems to be that adverse weather nonetheless created outstanding quality. The...
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I spent last weekend in a buzz of 450 Masters of Wine, MW students and wine producers from 30 countries...
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Following my reports on 2017s from Rheinhessen and Nahe plus Württemberg, this is the final report on the three-day Weinbörse...
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This miscellany of tasting notes was accumulated over the last six months or so, and represents the most noteworthy wines...
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Judging by the selection below, Yapp Brothers continue to distinguish themselves with carefully selected wines aimed at the committed oenophile...
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Last March I found myself in London at the same time as Pasquale Petrera of the Puglian estate Fatalone. He...
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Every year in Mainz on the last weekend in April, the German premium wine growers’ association, the VDP, hosts a...
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We have recently been discussing in this thread on our forum the contentious subject of when tasting notes on Grosse...
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Priorat is today, by far, the most highly regarded Catalan wine region; its wines are attracting worldwide attention. It is...
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If you wait long enough, your time will come (as Brian Croser described yesterday – see Croser crows a little)...
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Perhaps Tam should enter this exciting Hungarian wine writing competition...
At ten o’clock in the morning, sunlight pouring in from...
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In the 1970s the Rheinhessen used to churn out an endless stream of Liebfraumilch. It now seems to have a...
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‘Next to nothing’, replied Alec Seysses when I asked him if much has changed during the years covered by this...
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As I’ve already mentioned in Davenport the quiet hero, there are 700 vineyards in the UK, with a total of...
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