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The age of rosé
It can pay to age your rosé , Julian Leidy reports from Elizabeth Gabay MW’s Fine Rosé Day conference. We’re living in an age of rosé. A 2023 study by...
Julian Leidy
Tuesday 17 March 2026
• 2 min read
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The Burgundian touch in England's Crouch Valley
The sunny Crouch Valley in Essex lures Burgundians across the Channel to make wine in England. The Times , Britain’s newspaper of record, covered the news that two Burgundian winemakers...
Henry Jeffreys
Monday 16 March 2026
• 3 min read
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Rioja at 100 – revisiting Contino
Ferran Centelles
Monday 16 March 2026
• 2 min read
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This set of notes, based on a blind tasting of most of the classed growths of Sauternes supplemented by second...
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HAUT MEDOC Château de Camensac 2001 Haut Médoc 12 Drink 2007-2014 Good colour, but nasty green, unripe aromas. Very dry...
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Below are the tasting notes I think you will be most impatient for, on hundreds of significant wines in the...
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Château Clauzet 2001 St Estèphe 14 Drink 2005-2010 Mid-crimson. Quite evolved nose. Open. Green, almost grassy. Dull. Château Marbuzet 2001...
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Château Batailley 2001 Pauillac 15 Drink 2007-2014 Quite deep. Not much nose. Quite sturdy. Worthy yokel rather than a complex...
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Here's a late addition to the many tasting notes on Germany's delicious, buxom 2002s that are available in the 2003...
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Château Branaire 2001 St Julien 16 Drink 2007-2014 Deep purple. Modern, sweet black fruits on the nose. Relatively light and...
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Now here's a new feature on jancisrobinson.com – a second visit. A purple pager asked me some time back for...
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Yes, the other morning I had to slog through this lot. All commented upon by Christian Moueix, whose words on...
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As I have already written (see inside information), 1999 seems to me to be an absolutely outstanding vintage for Brunello...
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Jadot has long been one of the most reliable names in Burgundy, one of the few negociants to have a...
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Let me know whether you are interested in notes from historic tastings such as this. I use the word historic...
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Burgundy 2002 – the tasting notes Below are tasting notes based on more than 530 tastings of various 2002 burgundies...
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I have recently been sent a selection of exportable and exported Hungarian table wines from both a specialist company called...
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My fellow Master of Wine and British wine writer Clive Coates (who is about to move from west London to...
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The 1999 red bordeaux are beginning to appear on wine lists, so I though it would be useful to publish...
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