Jancis's diary – February 2025

Heat, or lack of it, was a theme this month.

Monday, 3 March 2025 • 6 min read
Lunch in the garden in the Palmeraie, Marrakech in Feb 2025

February is meant to be a short month, and we took a whole six days out to grab some sun and experience a completely different culture in Morocco in a villa just outside Marrakech, as described here by Nick and illustrated by the picture above of the sort of warm distraction from a grim winter in London we sought. (I spent a morning tasting a selection of Moroccan wines with Howell James (below), co-owner of El Fenn hotel and restaurant where we tasted – nothing much seemed to have changed...