Every month, we bring you a free digest of the very best bits from JancisRobinson.com, as well as:
- previews of what's to come
- flashbacks to the top stories on JancisRobinson.com 10 years ago
- highlights from our events calendar
- and free access to two Purple Pages articles from the preceding month.
- Julia on Georgia's dilemmas, both the ontological and the qvevri variety
- Our collected works – a run of regional tasting articles featuring a fascinating diversity of wines in each one, from great to grim
- Walter's Nebbiolo marathon
- Bernkasteler Ring's 2012 Mosels – a glowing review from Michael S
- Harry Haddon, the new kid on the block, writes about the odd kid coming good (now free)
- Richard on cork wars – movie included (both now free)
- The world's first varietal Tribidrag
- Lunch in a ruined castle with Sassicaia & Co
- Jancis sings the praises of unsung heroes Muscadet and Beaujolais
- A look at Huet's legendary Vouvrays
- Walter spilling secrets about the mafia
- A lot more on Germany 2012 from Michael, Julia and Jancis
- Our first-ever indepth look at Navarra complete with 112 tasting notes by our new Spanish specialist, Ferran Centelles
- A rare comparison of Bordeaux from 2009 to 2012, valiantly garnered by Julia under less than ideal tastig conditions
- More from Julia as she assesses the Equipo Navazos new releases
- Walter's encounter with Chiara Boschis, the glamour girl of Barolo
- Masochism squared – the first MW to climb Mt Everest (who has also, incidentally, just become the first-ever American chairman of the MW Institute)
- David Hohnen, founding father of Cloudy Bay (and described by Jancis as a could-have-been 'fine male model') steps down from his iconic winery after 18 years at the helm. McHentry Hohnen was the result
- Rather coincidentally, a Huet tasting back to 1947, which will make for an interesting comparison with the more up-to-date Huet tasting (also going back to 1947) that Jancis will publish at the end of this month
- Tim James grills Jancis on the dangers of competition tasting and trends in the South African wine industry
- an utterly hedonistic tasting of cult wines and Rococo chocolates in Belgravia, London
- Tasting wine in the Chocolate State – a chance to find out, first hand, if Pennsylvania can do wine as well as Hershey's
- a challenge for those who think they know their Pomerols from their Rutherford Benches – New World vs Old World Bordeaux blends in London