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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
• 2 min read
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Friedrich Schiller, the eighteenth-century German poet and philosopher, said, ‘There is no causality, what we see as chance arises from...
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Zubair Mohamed started selling wine at the back of his father's florist shop in Edinburgh in 1984. According to the...
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