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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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This article has been syndicated. See th e associated tasting notes o n Inglenook and Kapcsandy (and Stag's Leap Wine...
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Continuing the retrospective mood outlined in yesterday’s How well does wine age?, and as a reminder of how glorious mature...
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Florence and Daniel Cathiard have now been in charge of the estimable Pessac-Léognan property Ch Smith Haut Lafitte for 25...
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This is a very much longer version of an article published by the Financial Times. See our guide to coverage...
Wines of the week
From €11.30, £15, CA$32.99. Find this wine. I know that I am guilty of le Bordeaux bashing when it comes...
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You’ve heard of wine aged in barrels, steel vats, amphorae – even at the bottom of the ocean. That’s nothing...
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A version of this article was also published by the Financial Times. See also my tasting notes in full and...
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Every year a group of wine traders and commentators, very similar to the Southwold tasters, get together to taste the...
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This is a longer version of an article also published by the Financial Times. For full tasting notes, see Bordeaux...
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11 Dec 2014 This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times on 20 April...
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Last Thursday I enjoyed a sentimental reunion with some well-known old workmates, the first in 12 years. Longstanding Purple Pagers...
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See Sorting through the assortments for a guide to the many collections of tasting notes already published and details of...
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Bordeaux resident and wine writer Yohan Castaing describes two very different new establishments. For a long time Bordeaux did not...
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17 Jul 2014 – We are going to preface the titles of our Throwback Thursday republications with 'TT' if the...
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Yohan Castaing of Bordeaux reminded me to pass on news of this latest property transaction in Bordeaux. But see also...
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I happen to have tasted four interesting dry white bordeaux recently and feel rather heartened by them. In journalistic terms...
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