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The Jancis Robinson Story, episode 6 – maturing
The penultimate episode of a seven-part podcast series giving the definitive story of Jancis’s life and career so far. For the rest of the series, click here. This episode is...
Richard Hemming MW
Sunday 14 December 2025
• 29 min read
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From iron ore to flor in South Africa's wild west
On South Africa’s remote West Coast an unlikely fortified-wine revival is taking place. Malu Lambert reports. Saldanha’s castle is an improbable one. As you stream into the West Coast outpost...
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Thursday 11 December 2025
• 1 min read
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Matching wine with Asian food, part 4 – floral/fragrant and citric
Richard Hemming MW
Thursday 11 December 2025
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Spent yesterday in Ampuis celebrating Marcel Guigal’s elevation as Decanter Man of the Year 2006. High points included tasting the...
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Yesterday I was asked to give a tutored tasting entitled Cutting Edge Wines from Spain at the annual generic Spanish...
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A recent look at the top red bordeaux of 1996 suggests they are much less obdurate than the 1986s with...
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Last Friday I took part in a thoroughly enjoyable tasting of about 50 of the best right bank and Pessac-Léognan...
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This year’s Pol Roger Oxbridge Wine Tasting Challenge, held today at the Oxford & Cambridge Club in London (yes, very...
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16 sep: See a spirited response to this from Stephen Browett of Farr Vintners in your turn and David’s response...
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The one most memorable idea floated by Lu ís Hidalgo at a presentation on the state of the sherry business...
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Pierre Lurton, double-header supreme in his capacity as director of both Ch Cheval Blanc and Ch d’Yquem, was in London...
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Recent business graduate Viv Menon was supported by a Geoffrey Roberts Award 2005 to go on a fact finding mission...
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These brief comments on 2005 in various wine regions outside Europe, California and Australia from Julia Harding MW are in...
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Final tranche of small-lot wines that impressed me more than most in the 2004 burgundy tastings, though overall whites are...
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Again, in even greater haste, a second tranche of top picks from the rarer 2004 burgundies tasted (I should add...
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On the hoof, some of the rarer highlights from yesterday’s tastings: Bernard Morey, Chassagne Montrachet Blanc, Baudines and Embrazées (Genesis)...
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This is a ridiculous week for any London-based wine professional with an interest in Burgundy. There have long been a...
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Jan Paulson of www.rare-wine.com kindly reports: Over the year I am fortunate enough to receive a large number of invitations...
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Just before Christmas, on 21 dec, the EU voted through a total of six winemaking practices until now associated much...
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