Jancis's diary – February 2026

On the first of the month we had dinner at the popular Devonshire with two wine professionals on their way to Wine Paris: Michael Hill Smith MW from Australia (via a not-very-snowy Aspen) and David Millman of Domaine Drouhin in Oregon. It was a great pleasure to introduce them to the delights of the Xinomavro grape variety, via Thymiopoulos’s regular 2022, and to be treated at the end of our meal to Roquefort and...