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Wine vintages | JancisRobinson.com
Vintages. Growing seasons vary enormously from year to year. Here's your free guide to the most relevant vintages in the most significant regions. We think these brief descriptions are more useful than a numerical score.
An audience with the Pope | JancisRobinson.com
Oct 9, 2024 — A very special vineyard project is in the works. At 7.30 on the morning of 19 September I had an assignation with seven men and one woman under the obelisk in the middle of St Peter’s Square in Rome.
Burgundy Red Wine Vintage Chart: 1978 to 2022
A comprehensive guide to the quality and character of red burgundy wines from different vintages, based on expert reports and ratings. Learn how climate, weather and disease affected the Pinot Noir grapes and the resulting wines over the past four decades.
Tuscany Vintage Chart: 1985 to 2022 | JancisRobinson.com
A comprehensive overview of the weather and wine quality in Tuscany from 1985 to 2022, with a focus on Chianti Classico. Learn how each vintage was influenced by temperature, rainfall, frost, hail, mildew and more.
The Bunch 2024 | JancisRobinson.com
Oct 14, 2024 — This year's wallow in some of the UK's best independent merchants' wines. I came away from this year’s Bunch tasting at Fidelio Café in Clerkenwell, London, elated by the general level of quality at this annual showing of 10 wines chosen by each of the seven members of this group of independent wine merchants.
Eating out(side) in Copenhagen | JancisRobinson.com
Oct 13, 2024 — What is now abundantly clear, with hindsight of course, is how clever it was of Rene Redzepi, the highly talented chef at Noma, and his insightful partner in the restaurant Claus Meyer, to lay down such universal and easy to follow principles for the renaissance of cooking in this region.Redzepi highlighted the attention that many chefs today pay to foraging, a then-forgotten aspect of cooking ...
Bordeaux red wine vintages | JancisRobinson.com
A comprehensive guide to the quality and character of Bordeaux red wines from 1970 to 2022, based on expert reviews and ratings. Find out which vintages are the best for drinking, investing, or ageing, and how they compare to each other.
The ups and downs of Hermitage La Chapelle
Jul 20, 2024 — A recent vertical tasting of what was the most famous wine in the northern Rhône confirmed its extraordinary trajectory. A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See Julia's tasting notes from the tasting.. It’s difficult to think of a truly iconic, historic wine that rapidly loses its reputation because of human tragedy but Hermitage La Chapelle is that wine.
The Yellow Bittern | JancisRobinson.com
Nov 3, 2024 — The menu, on Wednesday 23 October, day three of the restaurant’s existence, was modern Irish in its brevity and content. It read: soda bread (£6); radishes and butter (£7); potage Crécy (carrot soup £8); Dublin Coddle (£20); guinea fowl and wood-pigeon pie (£40); roast guinea fowl (£26); green salad (£6); Irish cheeses (£14); and an apple pie and a rum savarin (£9 each).