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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...
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As action-packed as ever. Above: the crowd in Vintners' Hall for a session for Women in Wine London at the...
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Jan-Erik Paulson supplies another panoply of tasting notes on a famous Bordeaux château to complement his earlier Pichon Baron vertical...
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A lot of eating, a lot of travelling and a certain amount of visiting vineyards, including this rather difficult-to-manage one...
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Jan-Erik Paulson, semi-retired from his fine-wine company Rare Wine, has offered to share with us his experience of verticals of...
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Tastings, dinners and a lunch – this month none of them struck out in the diary, unlike January and February...
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Sure, Cabernet Sauvignon works well with lamb. But have you tried lamb with Verdejo?
The view from my desk right...
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Recuperation and an injection of 74-year-old camaraderie. Left to right above, Joanna Delaforce, Tim Littler, Tony Stebbings, Tim How, David...
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There's a reason the Hungarians celebrate Furmint February : it may be the ultimate winter white. See the bowl of...
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A monthly despatch that's much shorter than expected. Jancis's current routine drink, above.
Like many others, I’ve had a rather...
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A dramatic wine demands dramatic food. And that doesn’t mean ‘Asian’.
On the global scale of wine crimes, the well-worn...
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Some impressions from a memorable visit, also described in Drinking in Piemonte – wines and vintages 2011–2023 and The Barolofication...
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What it says on the tin. Above, one view of the JancisRobinson.com Christmas dinner 2023. You can just pick out...
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Behind the scenes at one of Australia's most desirable wine shows.
Australia's wine shows are the bellwethers of the country's...
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Journalist and Lebanese wine expert Michael Karam considers how Georgia and Lebanon, two of the world’s oldest and most geopolitically...
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A new generation of born-and-bred Armenians – mostly women – is creating the most exciting chapter in Armenian wine yet...
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Following up on Tam's March visit to France's Roussillon, when the wild rocket and cherry trees were in full bloom...
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