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My glasses of Yquem being filled at The Morris

Free for all Sweet and strong wines for the 2025 festive season

Go on, spoil yourself! A version of this article is published by the Financial Times . Above, my glasses being filled with Château d’Yquem 1975 at our celebratory dinner at...

Jancis Robinson Saturday 13 December 2025 • 7 min read

Tasting articles Strong stuff

Sherry, port and Madeira in profusion. This is surely the time of year when you can allow yourself to take the plunge into these very special wines. I tasted quite...

Jancis Robinson Friday 12 December 2025 • 3 min read

Tasting articles Wine discoveries – November 2025

Wines for the festive season, pulled from our last month of tastings. Above, fog over the California vineyards of Haliotide, a young winery focused exclusively on single-vineyard sparkling wines. Every...

Team JR Tuesday 2 December 2025 • 6 min read

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Kopke, 20 Years Old Tawny NV Port

The perfect port, whether the weather is tropical or freezing. From $21, €36.16, £35, CA$58.95, NZ$69.99, 349 Danish kroner, HK$480...

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Where are the world's oldest wines?

15 December 2022 We're republishing this just for fun, with a few updates, and would welcome any further suggestions via...

cheese board alongside glasses of different styles of sherry

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Favourite strong and sweet wines 2022

Please, please buy at least one of these strong recommendations. See my similar selections of fizz, whites and reds. A...

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Ports old and new

A seasonal treat luxuriated in … and notes from a long conversation with the man responsible for a heck of...

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The fate of the Douro sealed?

James Mayor reports from northern Portugal on a brave attempt to solve the problems of the Douro, against which too...

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Save the Douro

The problem of disappearing vineyard workers and old-vine produce disappearing into anodyne blends. A version of this article is published...

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Churchill's next generation

Johnny Graham is celebrating 40 years of the port shipper he founded, rather against the odds. Above he is seen...

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Reviving Cockburn

21 April 2022 This article, rescued from our archives, nicely complements the story of Johnny Graham of Churchill's published today...

Engraving of the withdrawal of French troops from Oporto before the arrival of Wellesley’s army

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Wine and conflict

Later Promising young enterprise Stakhovsky Wines in Zakarpattia, western Ukraine, set up by Ukraine's top tennis player, desperately needs 36,000...

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Favourite strong and/or sweet wines

Amazing sherry bargains, lovely but unloved sweet wines and some enthralling ports, which should be served in glasses larger and...

House at vineyards at Quinta dos Malvedos

Wines of the week

Graham's 2000 port

An anytime, anywhere classic recommended. From HK$500, $66.99, £54, €79, SG$150.71, CA$149.99, 1,075 Norwegian kroner, NZ$184.95, 16,522 Japanese yen, 995...