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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
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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
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Over a year ago, Andrew Jefford, sherry specialist Jesús Barquín, Portuguese specialist writer and now wine producer Richard Mayson and...
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Usually it’s too much brandy that gives you a headache, not too little. However, the port industry is faced with...
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A couple of weeks ago, a small group of us had the best excuse ever to take ourselves out to...
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£275 Find this wine Okay, £275 a bottle is no giveaway, but have you seen what other 60-year-old wines cost...
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The story I'm going to tell you today started a few years ago at one of the best restaurants in...
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I have just returned from the Douro, where this year's harvest began as early as August, much earlier than the...
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With his left hand in plaster after a cycling mishap, Adrian Bridge of the Taylor Fladgate Partnership was in London...
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The two major port shippers are taking very different views of 2009 as a port vintage. Adrian Bridge (pictured) of...
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I had lunch with someone who works for J P Morgan on Friday, tasted some wines from the cellar of...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. If you won't drink these often-underpriced...
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Adrian Bridge of The Fladgate Partnership (Fonseca, Taylor's, Croft, etc) and Paul Symington of Symington Family Estates (Graham's, Dow's, Warre's...
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Paul Symington (second from the left) of the Symington Family Estates, producers of Graham's, Dow's, Warre's ports et al, wrote...
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Christian Seely, Top Man at AXA Millésimes, the insurance giant's wine arm, had decided that the launch of the Quinta...
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What's the opposite of diversification? That's certainly what the Symington family seem set on. The Portugal-based family company that already...
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Port, for many of us, is inextricably related to weather. In England, it is strictly a seasonal drink, to be...
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In my view, young vintage port is pretty similar to young classed-growth red bordeaux: better cellared than drunk. But mature...
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