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The Southwold tastings – a history
1947 first growths a-go-go. Things were very different when this annual tasting got off the ground. Above, at the prototype tasting in 1980, left to right, an unknown taster, John...
Jancis Robinson
Thursday 12 February 2026
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Mission Blind Tasting
Blind tasting, part 1 – essential tools
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Thursday 12 February 2026
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Mission Blind Tasting
How – and why – to blind taste
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Thursday 5 February 2026
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Hemming's spittoon
I think they call it the coal face of wine tasting because your teeth end up looking like a coal...
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Zimbabwean-born Tam and I went briefly to gloriously autumnal Burgundy last weekend to witness the performance of the Zimbabwe team...
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Erica Platter, who introduced four remarkable Zimbabwean Supersommeliers to us in April 2016, now reveals that a film is to...
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Pierazzo da Feltre, one of the honourably mentioned finalists in our wine writing competition, urges us to take up the...
Hemming's spittoon
Optical illusion courtesy of MedithIT
Implicitly, we trust our senses. Our sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell are constantly assessing...
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Caroline Gilby MW is well known in wine circles for her unrivalled knowledge of wine production in eastern Europe. She...
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James Flewellen is no stranger to JancisRobinson.com. See, for example, this review of a book on wine tasting he co-wrote...
Book reviews
For links to all of Tam's reviews of wine books published in 2016, see this guide .
Your Wine Questions...
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A slightly shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See this follow-up symposium o minerality in...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Wine tourism is flourishing as never before and bottles...
Hemming's spittoon
After excoriating scoring here several months ago, let the spittoon of scorn now pour forth on its tasting-note bedfellow, the...
Don't quote me
The rarity of experiencing utter blackness becomes apparent only once you are immersed in it. Mundanely speaking, it is the...
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If you read my article earlier this year about heroic microbiologists, you will know that I am increasingly fascinated by...
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10 Mar 2016 Reminded by Alex’s splendid column last week about learning to taste blind, we are republishing this useful...
Alex on taste
Every February I permit myself a bit of nostalgia when in the middle of the month the annual varsity blind...
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Joss Fowler (pictured) wrote several revelatory articles for us a few months ago and muses below on the topic of...
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