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Northern California Zinfandel
Picking out value and genuine interest in California wine. More on Saturday. Above, an old Zinfandel vine at Dry Creek Vineyard, whose prices are especially reasonable and its practices admirably...
Jancis Robinson
Thursday 5 March 2026
• 2 min read
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Santorini's treasures – the wines
Julia Harding MW
Wednesday 4 March 2026
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This is the third and last of our collections of tasting notes on older vintages (see also Mature and maturing...
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Ridgeview could be described as the granddaddy of English sparkling-wine producers. The other long-standing Sussex producer Nyetimber may have produced...
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Jancis writes In June I had the great pleasure of tasting more than 30 of Penfolds top wines, including the...
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Over the last few years, echoing trends across the Atlantic, there has been a crescendo of noise about German wine...
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This is a Burgundian version of last week's collection of nearly 100 tasting notes on Mature and maturing bordeaux back...
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By the early 2000s, Cal-Ital was dead. It was almost impossible to sell California wine made from Italian cultivars. During...
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Justerini & Brooks have made it a tradition to show their Iberian and Italian portfolio in June, before the holidays...
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I'm delighted to say that Britain now has a host of independent wine retailers offering infinitely more exciting ranges of...
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We are often asked for more reviews of older vintages so, instead of adding tasting notes on older wines as...
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From my all-too-brief recent visit to Atlantic north-west Spain, here is a selection of tasting notes representing some of the...
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Not long ago I published the results of a blind comparative tasting of top white burgundies with the New Zealand...
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While Walter was upstairs at London's Caledonian Club (where I was asked not to use my laptop in the lobby...
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As usual Michel Chapoutier is first out of the traps to show the latest vintage from the Rhône Valley, shared...
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Long-serving members will know that this site has been charting the progress of Canadian wines ever since its humble beginnings...
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During my recent trip to Long Island (see A guide to Long Island wines) I tasted several hundred wines across...
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