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Jancis's diary – July 2025
Winners and dinners and much else besides. Above, the Supreme Champion trophy at this year's Wine GB Awards. Since 1989 when we bought a house in the Languedoc we have...
Jancis Robinson
Thursday 31 July 2025
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Book reviews
It's all about reactions… book reviews on the chemistry of wine up next.
Jean Lenoir Le Nez du Vin –...
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30 December 2021 See a submission from Flextanks added to the end of this article.
6 March 2021 See a...
Hemming's spittoon
Richard revives his Spittoon column with the curious story of the Jerezanos' other business.
Which traditional white wine is aged...
Inside information
In Oak – the cooper's view Matthew Hayes profiled François Frères. Here he talks to Eric Rousseau, Christophe Roumier and...
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In the first of three articles this week about oak, Matthew Hayes shares the secrets of making, and selling, barrels...
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In her penultimate despatch Samantha Cole-Johnson is considering her next move, and the impact of different barrels.
This vintage is...
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The rise and rise of a small Austrian cooperage business. A version of this article is published by the Financial...
Wines of the week
Ferran's wine of the week last Friday is a hard act to follow but here's an aromatic and well-priced Portuguese...
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Samantha explains hoses, presses and barrelling this week.
I don’t know how wine was made before hoses. They’re literally everywhere...
Wines of the week
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If you have ever been sceptical about the combination of Sauvignon...
Tasting articles
This tasting of older vintages of oaked Sauvignon Blanc from Bordeaux and the Loire turned out to be a classic...
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This article is also published in the Financial Times. In my little puddle of vinous life I am becoming aware...
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This article was originally published on Purple Pages, in the Don't quote me section reserved for opinion rather than news...
Inside information
Gareth Skidmore lives in Burgundy, where he works as a translator and teaches wine-business English to Burgundians. St-Romain – a...
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I've known Peter Sisseck ever since a very cold morning in December 1998. I used to take advantage of a...
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Although it may seem from my previous reports on the Langhe (see Aldo Conterno and Giuseppe Rinaldi) that I am...
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