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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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One of the most disappointing collections of red bordeaux in the annual Southwold-on-Thames series. See also this guide to our...
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The start of this year's Southwold tasting was the best bit. See detailed coverage of over 180 reds tomorrow and...
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Plus a promising new environmentally friendly technology for combating downy mildew, a common vineyard scourge around the world. Before I...
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The combination of an exciting vintage and low prices should be more appealing than it clearly is. High-scoring c ru...
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Not many professional tastings but an unusual number of lunches.
For logistical reasons I have to finish my diary a...
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Don't pour that ancient bottle of wine down the sink! Some of the corks from an evening described below that...
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Red wines may have the upper hand in this warm vintage, but there are whites worth seeking out and some...
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A first look at the 2022s in bottle at the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux tasting in London. Come...
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Tastings, dinners, films, and a Tube incident. Above, Lille at night. There was much less travel in November, though I...
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So which of these vintages is the best and which is the worst? JR and laptop bottom left of this...
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So why exactly are so many top French wine producers choosing to invest in American wineries? A much shorter version...
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Both AXA and the Cathiards of Château Smith Haut Lafitte showed off their Napa Valley wines recently – one with...
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Plus harvest updates from Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Rioja, Chianti and Piemonte. Above, Plēb Urban Winery was destroyed by Hurricane Helene...
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Joséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse is the winemaker at St-Émilion's Château Beauséjour, taking the reins as co-director with Prisca Courtin-Clarins in April 2021...
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A mini-vertical of Château Ducru-Beaucaillou and its neighbours, tasted in the Languedoc. See this guide to our bordeaux verticals.
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