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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...
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Monday 3 November 2025
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Jancis's diary - September 2025
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Wednesday 1 October 2025
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Jancis's diary – August 2025
Hot, hot, hot – and much quieter than usual. Above, one of Sylt’s many (delightfully cool) beaches. This month’s diary will be shorter than usual because I did very little...
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Monday 1 September 2025
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Warren Winiarski’s wait is over. The Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars founder has been elected to the 2009 Vintners Hall of...
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As an end-of-week folderol, allow me to share a couple of particularly successful food and wine matchings I’ve encountered recently...
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State-of-mind is a complex affair. Unfortunately, my formal knowledge of psychology goes no further than that somewhat bland brushstroke of...
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Is any other fellow British wine lover spluttering over their paper this morning? My Guardian states twice, in its report...
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I’m now back home after a week’s immersion in 2007s in Burgundy and then Châteauneuf-du-Pape with hundreds of tasting notes...
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Sharon Page, who describes herself as ‘former hack and more recently a front of house resto manager (my last job...
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Just a few quick observations between tastings – many of them of a range of 2007 Rhônes. The north seems...
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I have just posted well over 100 tasting notes on the 2006 bordeaux, but of course there is very much...
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Lindsay Hamilton, pictured here, finally files this report of the UK wine trade wedding of the year. It got left...
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28 Oct - In yesterday's vote in Montalcino, 96% of Brunello producers voted to maintain the status quo in terms...
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Chianti Classico producer Il Borghetto’s fetish for Burgundian bottles has fallen foul of the Chianti Classico Consorzio. Tim Manning, winemaker...
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New legislative proposals will dilute Prosecco still further. The Consorzio Tutela del Vino Prosecco DOC di Conegliano (pictured) e Valdobbiadene...
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Friday just past saw a bitter confrontation between some of the principal protagonists in the Brunellogate affair in a Face...
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Is there no end to Berry Bros’ imperialistic ambitions? Not content with owning most of St James’s in London, they...
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Last night Hugh Johnson and I launched Hallwag's German edition of the latest, 6th edition of the World Atlas of...
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Oh dear, oh dear. The newspapers are full of the terrible problem of tainted powdered milk in China which has...
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