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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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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
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Paul Symington sends the following news from the Douro Valley in Portugal: We are probably mad to do this in...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. Last week's London tasting of the...
Don't quote me
To the bemusement of many observers, The Fladgate Partnership responsible for such ports as Taylor's, Fonseca and Croft, with the...
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I asked Paul Symington to amplify his remarks about the new places to stay and eat in the Douro Valley...
Travel tips
Paul Symington of the eponymous and powerful port shippers sends this report of developments in northern Portugal. He could hardly...
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For many a wine drinker in the northern hemisphere, even (perhaps particularly) in the current economic climate, the chilly depths...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.This is the time of year when...
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At a time when so many of us ar wearing our warmest clothes, it seems especially appropriate to look at...
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We start a series of tasting notes on the three great fortified wines with Julia on port. With such great...
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Paul Symington of the Symington port group sends the following rather equivocal report on the 2008 harvest in the Douro...
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The wines described below were tasted over two days at the end of September at Quinta do Noval with Christian...
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On 4 Sep – by coincidence, the first day of their harvest in the Douro – Australian-trained Taylor Fladgate Partnership...
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Here are Julia’s tasting notes on the Douro table wines and brand new 2005 vintage ports shown at this launch...
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Although the great majority of port houses will concentrate on 2004 as their big vintage port release of the middle...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. I feel rather sorry for the...
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The 2004 growing season in the Douro was – of course – a bit cooler and more normal than 2003’s...
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