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Don't quote me Jancis's diary – October 2025

Two fabulous weekends, and a lot of tasting. The Tuscan weekend is exemplified by the outdoor Sunday lunch pictured above (unthinkable in London). I write this just before taking off...

Jancis Robinson Monday 3 November 2025 • 1 min read

Tasting articles Wine discoveries – July 2025

Team JR Friday 1 August 2025 • 6 min read

Tasting articles A (very) old wine dinner

Jancis Robinson Tuesday 24 December 2024 • 3 min read

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Tasting very old wine

A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See tasting notes on more than 50 particularly...

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Strong and/or sweet delights

A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. We all at JancisRobinson.com wish you the happiest and...

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Sherry galore

I hope Compton Mackenzie will forgive me for hijacking the title of his 1947 novel about whisky ship-wrecked off a...

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The strong, the sweet and the succulent

This is a much longer version of an article also published by the Financial Times. In the three sets of...

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Mad about madeira

It has become almost an annual tradition that the top Madeira wine producers – Barbeito, Blandy's (The Madeira Wine Company)...

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Strong and sweet wines – autumn collection

See this guide to all our autumn collections. Below are some of the best-value wines we have come across in...

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Legendary fortifieds

Read more in Truly fortifying. As Alex wrote in Putting wine in context, we were both lucky enough to attend...

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Madeira ancient and modern

The heavenly rarities described towards the end of this article give a glimpse into the future of some of the...

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Desert island wines

This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See my tasting notes on these...

Wines of the week

Barbeito 10 Year Old Sercial Madeira

From €20.50, £18.75, HK$310, 48.30 Swiss francs, 2,144 roubles Find this wine This week's bft, London's third annual Big Fortified...

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Marvellous madeiras

Madeira is one of the most thrilling wines in the world. The following were the 16 most exciting madeiras I...

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A cache of fine madeira

I don't often act as a blatant promoter of a single wine merchant's wares but a recent mailing reminded me...

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Mature gems from Madeira

I hardly need to convince Purple pagers of the astounding longevity of madeira wines, described by Jancis in The miracle...

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200 years of Madeira

‘Many are called and few are chosen', was the opening line as we sat in a room in London last...

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Madeira – not just for Christmas

This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See dozens of tasting notes of...

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More madeiras

These madeiras were tasted either in the lodges of the Madeira Wine Company (Blandy's/Cossart Gordon/Leacock/Miles), D'Oliveiras or Barbeito on the...