The French may be making lots of noise about trying to upgrade quality and make the appellation system really mean something, but it seems that a spot…
3 Dec 2002 Jancis RobinsonThree years ago Juliana Grigorieva, a diminutive 27-year-old Muscovite, had never tasted wine. Last year she won Russia's second-ever national…
29 Nov 2002 Jancis RobinsonSunday evening suppers are not supposed to yield gastronomic discoveries and, as I stood on the steep steps of The Gastonian, an extremely comfortable…
24 Nov 2002 Nick LanderRain makes vignerons sad and truffle hunters happy so make what you will of my damp experiences filming here. I don't think I have been offered Alba's…
24 Nov 2002 Jancis RobinsonJames Conaway is not the most popular man in California's Napa Valley. He has now written not just one but two books decrying various aspects of this…
22 Nov 2002 Jancis RobinsonOver the weekend of Les Trois Glorieuses in November, when the world arrives in the Côte d'Or, there was much talking up of the 2002 vintage with…
21 Nov 2002 Jancis RobinsonI went to a tasting of selected wines from Thresher / Wine Rack / Bottoms Up / Haddows wine stores yesterday and found it in general a rather…
17 Nov 2002 Jancis RobinsonLook out for 2002s After a couple of rather dodgy wet…
17 Nov 2002 Jancis RobinsonAustria 7 Burgundy 0 is the unlikely score of a fascinating blind tasting of top-quality white wines held in London last week. (See the results in…
15 Nov 2002 Jancis RobinsonThe results below are from the surprising blind tasting I did in London at the Groucho Club at the end of October, showing the average score in…
15 Nov 2002 Jancis RobinsonThe burgeoning wine industry in the far west of Canada has been marked by noticeable ebullience and a level of achievement unappreciated by the rest…
15 Nov 2002 Jancis RobinsonNo sooner had I reported on Professor Roger Corder's findings linking high altitude, tannic red wines with potential longevity than I am sent a bottle…
13 Nov 2002 Jancis RobinsonThe latest wine paperback has just landed on my desk and I can heartily recommend it. It's the 2003 list of the Australian wine specialist Vin du Van…
13 Nov 2002 Jancis RobinsonAt the end of October Hugh Johnson, Nick and I went to Moscow for a couple of days to launch the first-ever Russian edition of The World Atlas of…
13 Nov 2002 Jancis RobinsonAll these wines (and many more) were tasted blind in London in September 2002. Some were truly thrilling and bore witness to the reputation of this…
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