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Travel tips Japan wine – a trip through Nagano

Yoko Obara highlights what’s p ossibly the most exciting wine region in Japan today. An ever-growing range of wineries here are building on a history that reaches back to the...

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Guest contributor Wednesday 3 December 2025 • 6 min read
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Westwell Wines vineyard in autumn
Travel tips Visit an English vineyard

A plea to get out in the vines this autumn – with tips on how and where to go. Above, Westwell’s vineyards in Kent. The best time to visit an...

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Henry Jeffreys Thursday 16 October 2025 • 1 min read

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The beauty of Oxford
I couldn't resist filming this extraordinary setting for a recent birthday party of an old friend of mine: the Divinity...
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Provence's St-Paul
This article was originally published in Business Life . Despite the early morning sunshine, my wife [that's me, probably fretting...
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Wine in Egypt
With this contribution to our occasional Travel tips, we begin a week with a focus on Africa. Julia will pick...
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New winery museum – at 2,300m
Donald Hess's winery and estate Colomé in the Andes in northern Argentina is already remarkable. It is the country's oldest...
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Eating and staying in the Douro
I asked Paul Symington to amplify his remarks about the new places to stay and eat in the Douro Valley...
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New museum, new mood in the Douro
Paul Symington of the eponymous and powerful port shippers sends this report of developments in northern Portugal. He could hardly...
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Bruges
Ex Cumbrian wine merchant and now Languedoc resident Richard Neville was asked recently by an architect friend how to get...
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A scrubdown in Tokyo
Most unusually, it's been some time since I have seen my husband. Well before I got back from more than...
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A St Moritz institution
This article was originally published in Business Life . The lounge at the Suvretta House hotel provided three reasons why...
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Mallorcan apartments
Nick wrote here recently about the pleasures of eating on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. Let me add a recommendation...
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Top tip for finding cheap flights
This is more of a signpost than an article, to my recommendation of Dohop.com here in Jancis recommends.
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Klinger on Piemonte updated
Willi Klinger was Angelo Gaja's right hand man from 2000 to 2006. Here are his most memorable restaurants in the...
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Michelin's Bay Area favourites
To the surprise of no one, except perhaps an egotistical chef or two, Thomas Keller’s The French Laundry in Napa...
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A fantastic wine list in Alsace
Any wine lover within striking distance of Basel or Alsace should think seriously about a trip to the Restaurant de...
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A visitor's guide to Napa
If you haven't been to Napa Valley lately, there are surprises in store. The landmark wineries still draw crowds, The...
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A useful hotel by Grand Central Station
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