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Don't quote me Jancis's diary – May 2026

Foreign parts feature heavily this month, including the villa above overlooking Tangier. But that’s far from all. I hope you noticed that I hardly travelled at all at the beginning...

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Ch La Conseillante 2019
Don't quote me Nick Martin of Wine Hub puts this year's en primeur campaign in perspective. See also this guide to the Bordeaux...
Lost In A Field
Don't quote me For English Wine Week, Tam shares her new discoveries from an ever-evolving wine region. Itasca 'Young guns' has become an...
Roussillon - Treloar old-vine vineyards
Don't quote me With water in short supply, Roussillon's vintners are planning ahead. Above, one of Treloar's old-vine vineyards showing verdant ground cover...
Kocbek - pumpkin seed oil coming out the press
Don't quote me Pumpkin-seed oil as complex, terroir-reflective and delicious as great wine. The smell was rich in the air. Sweet, roasted, green...
top-scoring 2019s at the Southwold tasting
Don't quote me Overarching conclusions – and some bargains from this year's extensive, three-day blind tasting of all the bordeaux 2019s that matter...
Tavel and fish soup
Don't quote me 8 December 2022 You may have heard Tamlyn Currin chatting with Jancis on our first-ever podcast this week. Here, in...
2022 Napa harvest
Don't quote me No one should write off this smoke-shrunk vintage. There are apparently some beauties to be winkled out – from the...
Hors-Série corks and cages
Don't quote me The new team at Piper found a couple of interesting 1982s lurking in the cellar … As pickers snipped a...
View of the Crouch Valley from Martin's Lane Vineyard
Don't quote me Could a small corner of Essex, better known for Maldon salt and marshes, become England's Côte d'Or? Above, a view...
Dr José Vouillamoz
Don't quote me 6 October We’re republishing this free today, to coincide with Tam’s tasting article that includes ‘one of the most delicious...
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Don't quote me 22 September 2022 With the sad news of the recent death of this towering force in introducing fine Italian wine...
MW exam desk in London
Don't quote me A working knowledge of cricket would be an asset for readers of this lament by our man in Burgundy. Above...
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Don't quote me James Mayor reports from northern Portugal on a brave attempt to solve the problems of the Douro, against which too...
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Don't quote me Two travel series, superficially similar, reviewed. One of the unexpected upsides of the 2020 lockdown was watching Stanley Tucci making...
Oregon's Results team, a vineyard management company
Don't quote me The other side of the argument re VMCs. Above, the Results team at a go-kart team-building exercise (see below). Last...
RVF our relationship with soil
Don't quote me Does the wine industry need to re-think its relationship with soil? The Regenerative Viticulture Foundation suggests that it does. We...
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