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Welcome to this very personal, obsessively updated, completely INDEPENDENT source of news, views and opinion on wine with a bit of food and travel thrown in by Jancis Robinson and team. We hope you enjoy all that is available absolutely free, which can be accessed from the red menu below left - and also that you might be tempted to join our members-only purple pages, where you'll find tens of thousands of tasting notes, the world's only online Oxford Companion to Wine and a particularly courteous and well informed members' forum. We continue to add masses of tasting notes - most recently topping up our coverage of Rhône 2006s. But there's also the likes of China and Slovenia as well as strong recommendations from Australia, New Zealand and Portugal and an up to the minute snapshot of 2003 Bordeaux - but see also our 530 tasting notes on Bordeaux 2007s.

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Recent articles

Robert Mondavi dies (in: free for all) May 16, 2008: A personal farewell to the man who led California wine into a new era.

Brunello petition (in: free for all) May 16, 2008: An opportunity to express your devotion to all-Sangiovese Brunello.

Ye Olde Bordeaux Part 2 - video (in: don't quote me) May 16, 2008: Michael Broadbent MW this time, at yesterday's La Mission Haut-Brion extravaganza.

Ye Olde Bordeaux Part 1 - video (in: don't quote me) May 16, 2008: David Peppercorn on the era when temperature control was a novelty and you could buy first growths and still have change from half a crown.

Bargain 2005 bordeaux - no oxymoron (in: tasting notes) May 15, 2008: Some concrete suggestions from the Haut-Medoc and less glamorous corners of South West France.

Name and shame heavy bottles (in: don't quote me) May 15, 2008: The start of a campaign to highlight unnecessary wine packaging. Please name the worst offenders. 13 Feb - we're running out of lightweight bottles apparently. 15 Feb - don't forget to keep track of recent posts here. 14 Mar - please keep adding your suggestions. Some South African shockers encountered yesterday. 14 May - I have brought this back up to the top of the list of articles as I have just added some more, and want to encourage you to continue to add to the list.

Hubert de Boüard - a very busy man (in: inside information) May 14, 2008: Our Bordeaux Week continues with a detailed look at the increasing number of hats worn by the co-owner of Ch Angélus.

California sees return to dry farming (in: free for all) May 14, 2008: As water levels fall, irrigation goes out of fashion.

South Australian Shiraz - a tale of terroirs (in: inside information) May 14, 2008: Having earned his bread and butter working the harvest in McLaren Vale, Richard Hemming eats his Shiraz cake in McLaren Vale, Barossa and Clare.

Researchers find links between wine and music (in: don't quote me) May 13, 2008: Is Montes serious? What do you think about blending these two forms of connoisseurship?

Verus Furmint 2007 Štajerska Slovenia (in: wines of the week) May 13, 2008: £7.99 exactly. An intriguing, whistle-clean wine with an intriguing human interest story.

La Conseillante at Bray (in: inside information) May 13, 2008: Lindsay Hamilton (ex Farr) compares the Bordeaux market today with 10 years ago.

Bordeaux - five recent verticals (in: tasting notes) May 12, 2008: The start of our Bordeaux Week.

Georgia forced to reform the wine market (in: free for all) May 12, 2008: Joachim Binz on the effects of Russia's ban on Georgian wine imports.

Brooklyn - new hub for restaurant-goers (in: nick's food news) May 10, 2008: Nick tours the restaurants of Brooklyn with Robert Walsh, New York City’s Commissioner for Small Businesses.

Pursuing a dream - as vignerons (in: free for all) May 10, 2008: A look at some of the thousands of people who have left Britain to make wine in France - and their most common mistake.

Made in France - by Brits (in: free for all) May 9, 2008: Recommended bottles from those who have followed their dream over the Channel and into the cellar. 14 May - updated with some smaller, all-British domaines.

Berrys' crystal ball (in: don't quote me) May 9, 2008: Berry Bros do it again. But they have their imperfections. As do their competitors (see 10.50 update).

Dry German Riesling – word gets out in the US (in: inside information) May 8, 2008: Or in New York anyway...

Champagne tasting in Surrey on 7 July (in: free for all) May 8, 2008: All in a good cause.