diff --git a/sgkit/tests/io/vcf/test_vcf_roundtrip.py b/sgkit/tests/io/vcf/test_vcf_roundtrip.py
index 7b677bbcc..7d0ee6d24 100644
--- a/sgkit/tests/io/vcf/test_vcf_roundtrip.py
+++ b/sgkit/tests/io/vcf/test_vcf_roundtrip.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 from sgkit.tests.io.vcf.utils import assert_vcfs_close, path_for_test
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skip("Temporarily disabling pending bugfix; #1196")
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "vcf_file, encoding, generate_header",
     [
diff --git a/sgkit/tests/io/vcf/test_vcf_scikit_allel.py b/sgkit/tests/io/vcf/test_vcf_scikit_allel.py
index 68c654987..ef797f6eb 100644
--- a/sgkit/tests/io/vcf/test_vcf_scikit_allel.py
+++ b/sgkit/tests/io/vcf/test_vcf_scikit_allel.py
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ def test_DP_field(shared_datadir, tmpdir):
     assert_identical(allel_ds, sg_ds)
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skip("Temporarily disabling test; see #1195")
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "vcf_file,allel_exclude_fields,sgkit_exclude_fields,max_alt_alleles",
     [
diff --git a/sgkit/tests/io/vcf/test_vcf_writer.py b/sgkit/tests/io/vcf/test_vcf_writer.py
index bdb456e04..9123bb315 100644
--- a/sgkit/tests/io/vcf/test_vcf_writer.py
+++ b/sgkit/tests/io/vcf/test_vcf_writer.py
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ def test_zarr_to_vcf(shared_datadir, tmp_path, output_is_path):
     )
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skip("Temporarily disabling pending bugfix; #1196")
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("in_memory_ds", [True, False])
 @pytest.mark.filterwarnings(
     "ignore::sgkit.io.vcfzarr_reader.DimensionNameForFixedFormatFieldWarning",