From FOOD & DRINK May 17, 2013

Jancis Robinson: Haute stuff

Illustration showing how global warming affects wines ©Ingram Pinn

How climate change is transforming reality – and reputations – in the Hautes Côtes, an area once shunned by fine wine lovers

Viognier vines in New South Wales ©Cephas Picture Library From FOOD & DRINK May 10, 2013

Jancis Robinson: Australian alternatives

There is now more Spanish Tempranillo and Tuscan Sangiovese in Australia than there is Cabernet Franc or Chenin Blanc

Illustration of vintage port, by Ingram Pinn ©Ingram Pinn From FOOD & DRINK May 3, 2013

Jancis Robinson: First port of call

Why 2011 was a very good year for vintage port

Chateau where? illustration by Ingram Pinn ©Ingram Pinn From FOOD & DRINK Apr 26, 2013

Jancis Robinson: Château where?

Arnaud Christiaens’ scheme to create first-growth rivals from unnamed vineyards is designed to kick the whole Bordeaux system where it hurts most…

An illustration by Ingram Pinn depicting a shy wine ©Ingram Pinn From FOOD & DRINK Apr 19, 2013

Jancis Robinson: Slim pickings

Bordeaux 2012: ‘a small, cunning, cowering, timorous vintage made by the skin of its teeth’

'Red Obsession': workers at Chateau Changyu near Beijing From FOOD & DRINK Apr 12, 2013

Jancis Robinson: Vintage cinema

Why are there so many new films about wine? Jancis Robinson reviews five

©Ingram Pinn From FOOD & DRINK Apr 5, 2013

Young Americans

Every one of the 50 states now makes wine, even Hawaii and Alaska. North Dakota was the last to succumb

Illustration by Ingram Pinn showing wine bottles inside an Easter chocolate egg ©Ingram Pinn From FOOD & DRINK Mar 29, 2013

Sweet surrender

Good quality chocolate, the sort that costs a fortune, can certainly be paired with wine provided you choose carefully

Illustration of Hill of Grace wine ©Ingram Pinn From FOOD & DRINK Mar 22, 2013

Heirs and Grace

The verdict after tasting 48 vintages made from some of Australia’s oldest vines? ‘Hill of Grace deserves its pinnacle’

Illustration of a wine archivist ©Ingram Pinn From FOOD & DRINK Mar 15, 2013

Unfinished stories: Vins Doux Naturels

Wine archivists Philippe and Sandrine Gayral are ‘saviours of a dying wine style’

From FOOD & DRINK Mar 8, 2013

The wine race

The Oxford v Cambridge wine tasting is an extraordinary match – held well before the Boat Race but taken just as seriously

From FOOD & DRINK Mar 1, 2013

Château-not-so-neuf

The greatest shock is how pure and fresh the wines are that come out of Rayas’ dusty, cobwebby containers

From FOOD & DRINK Feb 22, 2013

Waiting for Godello

I have a new enthusiasm – beautifully balanced fine whites from the local Godello grape grown inland of Rías Baixas

From FOOD & DRINK Feb 15, 2013

Fifty shades of grape

‘This grape obsessive’s interest in unusual grape varieties is so marked that he prefers to remain anonymous’

From FOOD & DRINK Feb 8, 2013

Points north: northern Rhône 2011 selection

‘Northern Rhône white grapes shrivelled in the August heat and were picked before the rains, making successful, if full-bodied, wines’

From FOOD & DRINK Feb 1, 2013

Too Bordelais to fail?

The best 2009s were beautifully balancedit was one of the most enjoyable Suffolk bordeaux tastings I can remember

From FOOD & DRINK Jan 25, 2013

Canada warms up

There were more impressive whites than reds but – thanks to climate change – reds are no longer pale apologies for wine

From FOOD & DRINK Jan 18, 2013

Beaunes to pick

In general, the 2011 burgundies are good at showing tasteable differences between vineyards

From FOOD & DRINK Jan 11, 2013

Bonnes Nuits

Côte de Nuits are not wines that will have to be cellared for decades. They are characterised by truly burgundian delicacy

From FOOD & DRINK Jan 4, 2013

The great vine decline

The rise in the incidence of vine wood diseases is worrying vignerons

ABOUT JANCIS

Jancis RobinsonJancis 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. She has presented several award-winning television programmes including Jancis Robinson’s Wine Course and Vintners’ Tales, and is a professional narrator.

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