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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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Tim Hall of Scala Wine shares news, views and tips from this year’s reprised Champagne Week, Le Printemps des Champagnes...
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Walter alerts us to the recent creation of the delle Venezie DOC, Europe’s largest, and the benefits that have accrued...
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And specifically those of Washington State – one of which, Columbia Valley, encompasses 11 million acres.
In 1980, the US...
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The case for putting the Willamette Valley's eggs in more than one basket. Above, David Hill winery and vineyard's proud...
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A love letter to Oregon's hands-on wine industry…
As your Pacific Northwest specialist, I strive to be objective. But when...
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An energised Sam reports on the highs and lows of her first meeting with fellow first-year Master of Wine students...
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Veteran of 52 vintages and the varying weather they have exhibited, Brian Croser, of Tapanappa in South Australia, wonders whether...
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‘But black kale, or cavolo nero, is a different beast. The leaves look like the frosted plumes of an exotic...
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An opening gambit from our new executive editor US on the pluses and minuses of California wine's stylistic evolution.
I...
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Tim Hall shares the latest news from Reims and Épernay and why SOG is so important. Above, the headquarters of...
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Walter consults the oracles of the Langhe, and is impressed by what his own palate tells him. Tasting notes to...
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Back in 2018, when Jancis suggested in Beaujolais – a useful alternative to burgundy that beaujolais was ‘a great choice...
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Not quite enough, thinks Andy Howard MW. But he still finds 15 wines to recommend, many of them great value...
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Arnica Rowan wrote this tale of rural life just after pouring this magnum on Canadian Thanksgiving Day last month and...
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Sweets for my sweet, sugar for my honey…
So goes the first line of the well-covered 1961 song by the...
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A gin that challenges the clichéd pairings.
It’s such an entwined pair that it’s one of the few drinks that...
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