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    Jancis Robinson

    Jancis Robinson has been writing and broadcasting about wine since 1975, and has been the FT’s wine correspondent since 1989. Her principal occupation nowadays is www.jancisrobinson.com but she is also responsible for many of the standard reference books on wine including The Oxford Companion to Wine and, with Hugh Johnson, The World Atlas of Wine.

    She qualified as a Master of Wine, the first from outside the wine trade, in 1984, and regularly judges and lectures about wine around the world. Her BBC Maestro course, An Understanding of Wine, launched in February 2022. She has presented several award-winning television programmes including Jancis Robinson’s Wine Course and Vintners’ Tales, and is a professional narrator.

    Email Jancis Robinson @JancisRobinson  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)

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      FT MagazineWine
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      South Africa finds Pinot’s sweet spot

      On the south coast, wine producers enjoy a place that is literally heaven on earth

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      Bell Hill, New Zealand: the first vineyard visit that left me feeling sad

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      Portuguese wine used to be my insider tip — now it’s everywhere

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      Letter from Mexico: a five-hour wine tasting full of surprises

      New local drinkers plus new international styles make Mexico’s viticultural scene one to watch

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      Bordeaux’s 2022 vintage: a delightful mystery

      Last year’s scorching summer wasn’t the disaster that many winemakers anticipated — now they need to work out why

    • Saturday, 29 April, 2023
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      What does the rise in wildfires mean for fine wine?

      Smoke taint signals danger for winemakers. California producers are on a crash course in coping strategies — taught by their Australian counterparts

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      A Scottish winemaker ponders Napa prices

      Californian Cabernets conjures prices that other producers can only dream of. But what happens when you buck the trend?

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      The pioneering spirit of Oregon wine is too good to lose

      Winemakers here share a community, can-do approach. Can it survive the arrival of big players from outside?

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      The good and bad news for UK wine buffs

      The biggest price rise in nearly half a century is coming. So why is one British institution taking the long view?

    • Saturday, 1 April, 2023
      FT MagazineWine
      Elegance over brawn: the many attractions of Barolo

      It’s rare to find a collection of vintages as consistent as this one from Marengo

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      German wine has transformed itself. Why haven’t buyers noticed?

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      The artist who became a Bordeaux vigneron

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      The bizarre but also beneficial methods that make biodynamic wine

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      Forget Meursault and Montrachet. It’s time for Mâconnais

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      A Bordeaux that is among the very best

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      Price, quality and the problem of wine cultism

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      What will it take to be bottoms up for Bordeaux?

      The gulf between the region’s high- and low-end wine producers is widening — but the quality of its reds has never been better

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