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Dar Sinclair, Tangier
Don't quote me 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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Women in Wine London crowd at Vintners' Hall 30 April
Don't quote me As action-packed as ever. Above: the crowd in Vintners' Hall for a session for Women in Wine London at the...
Jan-Erik Paulson and May-Eliane de Lencquesaing
Don't quote me Jan-Erik Paulson supplies another panoply of tasting notes on a famous Bordeaux château to complement his earlier Pichon Baron vertical...
Ink Grade terraces, Howell Mountain
Don't quote me A lot of eating, a lot of travelling and a certain amount of visiting vineyards, including this rather difficult-to-manage one...
Old postcard of Château Pichon Longueville
Don't quote me Jan-Erik Paulson, semi-retired from his fine-wine company Rare Wine, has offered to share with us his experience of verticals of...
Julia and Jancis in Exeter quad
Don't quote me Tastings, dinners and a lunch – this month none of them struck out in the diary, unlike January and February...
Sliced roast lamb
Don't quote me Sure, Cabernet Sauvignon works well with lamb. But have you tried lamb with Verdejo? The view from my desk right...
1950 Babes Feb 2024
Don't quote me Recuperation and an injection of 74-year-old camaraderie. Left to right above, Joanna Delaforce, Tim Littler, Tony Stebbings, Tim How, David...
Glass of Furmint, bowl of Hungarian goulash
Don't quote me There's a reason the Hungarians celebrate Furmint February : it may be the ultimate winter white. See the bowl of...
Jancis nutritional supplement drink
Don't quote me 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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Don't quote me A dramatic wine demands dramatic food. And that doesn’t mean ‘Asian’. On the global scale of wine crimes, the well-worn...
Vajra visitor centre
Don't quote me Some impressions from a memorable visit, also described in Drinking in Piemonte – wines and vintages 2011–2023 and The Barolofication...
JR.com 2023 Christmas dinner wide
Don't quote me What it says on the tin. Above, one view of the JancisRobinson.com Christmas dinner 2023. You can just pick out...
Glasses of wine at the Margaret River Wine Show
Don't quote me Behind the scenes at one of Australia's most desirable wine shows. Australia's wine shows are the bellwethers of the country's...
Graffiti on a Tbilisi wall highlights the aspirations of Georgians who see a better future with NATO and the EU than under the Russian yoke (Credit: Michael Karam)
Don't quote me 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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Don't quote me A new generation of born-and-bred Armenians – mostly women – is creating the most exciting chapter in Armenian wine yet...
Treloar Mourvedre vines in Roussillon
Don't quote me 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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