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Jancis's diary – May 2026
Foreign parts feature heavily this month but that’s far from all. The villa pictured above overlooks Tangier. I hope you noticed that I hardly travelled at all at the beginning...
Jancis Robinson
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The cross-Channel special relationship
A look at Anglo-French love through the lens of wine. Plus a guide to the UK’s fine-wine traders. A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times...
Jancis Robinson
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A second helping of bordeaux 2010s, this time tasted blind. See also BI's 2010 bordeaux showcase, and this guide to...
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A rather shorter version of this article about a retrospective tasting of 2010 bordeaux is published by the Financial Times...
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Gavin Quinney presents his final report on the most recent Bordeaux vintage. See also Bordeaux 2019 half-term report and Bordeaux...
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14 July 2020 I celebrated Bastille Day here in France by opening a second, much more impressive, sample of Cheval...
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The Alliance des Crus Bourgeois du Médoc have just announced their new, five-year classification. The big change is that this...
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The annual Southwold-on-Thames tastings were exceptional this year. Here we all are, hard at work, overlooked by François Mitjavile of...
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The third, last and most comprehensive report on this year's Southwold-on-Thames blind tasting of 264 2016s from Bordeaux's best addresses...
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The second of three reports on this year's Southwold-on-Thames blind tasting of 2016 bordeaux. See also yesterday's report on the...
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We begin the week's series of tasting articles on this year's Southwold-on-Thames blind tasting of the 2016 Bordeaux vintage with...
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Just a few of the fascinating research projects currently underway at Bordeaux's centre of wine academia. See Joined-up science at...
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A day spent at the hub of wine academe in Bordeaux, the world-famous ISVV, was fascinating, and threw up serious...
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A lighter vintage but with some attractive and aromatically open wines. For Jancis's review of the left bank and sweet...
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Gavin Quinney of Ch Bauduc in the Entre-Deux-Mers provides us with his typically thorough and well-illustrated report on the latest...
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Current and older vintages from 32 of the 226 Médoc producers whose 2017s gained cru bourgeois status.
‘Drinkability is our...
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Mouton '45 and Pol Roger '14 x 2. Gloating unlimited.
I have a new mantra: less work and more perk...
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How do the increasing number of non-French wines now being sold in Bordeaux measure up to the wines the Bordeaux...
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