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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. 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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  • Saturday, 23 January, 2021
    FT MagazineWine
    Jancis Robinson’s tips on how to travel vicariously through wine

    These bottles will inspire daydreams of holidays past — and still to come

  • Saturday, 16 January, 2021
    FT MagazineWine
    Rethinking the bottle: could plastic, cans and kegs be greener?

    Glass is still the material of choice for fine wine — but we must embrace the alternatives

  • Saturday, 9 January, 2021
    FT MagazineWine
    Cold comforts: the biggest, boldest white wines for winter

    These refreshing alternatives to reds pack just as much punch

  • Saturday, 2 January, 2021
    FT MagazineWine
    Jancis Robinson: what’s really in your wine?

    One has to admire the combined forces of the world’s wine trade for having dodged the niggling demands of ingredient labelling for so long

  • Thursday, 24 December, 2020
    Wine
    Would you pay £6,000 for a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc?

    Bottles are selling for thousands — but wines should earn their ambitious price tags

  • Saturday, 19 December, 2020
    FT MagazineWine
    Jancis Robinson’s guide to the best — and best-value — festive ports, sherries, madeiras and more

    ‘Just the job to accompany the sweet tanginess of Christmas pudding’

  • Saturday, 12 December, 2020
    FT MagazineWine
    Jancis Robinson’s guide to the best festive reds

    From classic wines to a selection from the most exciting new regions

  • Saturday, 5 December, 2020
    FT MagazineWine
    Jancis Robinson’s guide to the best festive whites

    A selection of 27 dry wines to see you through the holiday season

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    FT MagazineWine
    Jancis Robinson’s guide to the best festive bubbles

    ‘If you can’t make a pop with a cork at this time of year, when can you?’

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  • Saturday, 21 November, 2020
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    Bright young Burgundy

    ‘The 2019s were charming, full of fruit yet with great energy too’

  • Saturday, 14 November, 2020
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    Women and wine: a tipping point

    ‘Young women considering a career in wine wish to feel safe — and can make a public fuss if they don’t’

  • Saturday, 7 November, 2020
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    Why Grenache has such panache

    Once associated with southern France, it has now become ‘the secret weapon of McLaren Vale in Australia’

  • Saturday, 31 October, 2020
    FT MagazineWine
    Why wine is the democratic drink

    Even though there are 33 million wine drinkers in the UK, the myth persists that it is elitist

  • Saturday, 24 October, 2020
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    Burgundy’s vineyards feel the heat of climate change

    Dry, hot summers and earlier harvests have upended the calendars of winemakers in the region

  • Saturday, 17 October, 2020
    FT MagazineWine
    A guide to the best British wines

    Jancis Robinson on how the UK has been making great strides in winemaking

  • Saturday, 10 October, 2020
    FT MagazineWine
    Why you should buy South African wine

    It is gorgeous and often underpriced — but the industry has been badly hamstrung since March

  • Saturday, 3 October, 2020
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    Why Riesling is the greatest white wine grape

    'The wines it produces last and continue to evolve interestingly for ever'

  • Friday, 25 September, 2020
    FT MagazineWine
    Jancis Robinson: winemakers take a lead in sustainability

    'Vignerons are generally ahead of most other agricultural sectors – at least as far as the environment goes'

  • Saturday, 19 September, 2020
    FT MagazineWine
    Why madeira is my desert island pick

    ‘There is no heavy sediment and, if my experience is anything to go by, much less risk of a hangover’

  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
    The best of the FT Weekend Festival 20201 min
    Jancis Robinson: 'California's new winemakers didn't want to conform'

    An interactive tasting of three Californian new wave wines by the FT's wine critic

  • Friday, 11 September, 2020
    FT MagazineWine
    Jancis Robinson on the evolution of wine varieties

    Internationally famous varieties have become dominant, a new compendium shows

  • Saturday, 5 September, 2020
    FT MagazineWine
    Jancis Robinson on the next generation of California winemakers

    How vineyard owners in Napa and Sonoma are tackling the succession issue

  • Saturday, 29 August, 2020
    FT MagazineWine
    The hidden treasure of Languedoc’s wines

    Superb bargains are to be found in the region’s schist-rich hills

  • Saturday, 25 July, 2020
    FT MagazineWine
    A super cooper producing the new winemaking accessory du jour

    Jancis Robinson on Stockinger, the Austrian cooperage that has winemakers lining up for its wooden fermentation vats

  • Saturday, 18 July, 2020
    FT MagazineWine
    Would you pay £200 for a bottle of Chinese wine?

    Two ‘icon wines’ from China are being launched in the UK this month – Jancis Robinson assesses their worth

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