Jancis's diary – January 2025

For the rest of the world, January may be Dry, but for me it is very thoroughly wine-soaked. The rigours of Burgundy Week are swiftly followed by the three-day marathon that is the annual Southwold blind tasting of all significant bordeaux wines produced in the vintage four years before. Hold on for my coverage of how the 2021s are looking now, to be published next week. 

But before that bordeaux immersion Nick and I treated ourselves to a...