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Jancis Robinson

Wine Columnist

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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  • Friday, 6 December, 2019
    FT MagazineWine
    Jancis Robinson’s stunning white wines for the festive season

    From a delicate Muscadet to a powerful Meursault, 26 wines of excellent value

  • Friday, 29 November, 2019
    FT MagazineWine
    Jancis Robinson’s best red wines to drink this Christmas

    From £8.50 to £80, these 35 bottles are great value — and great drinking

  • Friday, 22 November, 2019
    FT MagazineWine
    Jancis Robinson’s finest sparkling wines for Christmas

    Champagne is festive, but so too is cava, prosecco and even English bubbly

  • Friday, 15 November, 2019
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    Why Chinese investors are becoming Australian vignerons

    Aussie wine’s most valuable export market is China, worth more than twice as much as the US

  • Friday, 8 November, 2019
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    Pinot Blanc checks: from Austria to Australia

    ‘Recent tastings have convinced me how good — and useful — wines from these grapes can be’

  • Friday, 1 November, 2019
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    How Cloudburst is pushing up prices in Western Australia

    Newcomer Will Berliner sells his wine for much more than Margaret River’s established names

  • Friday, 25 October, 2019
    FT MagazineWine
    Why Greek wines deserve more love

    The only mystery is why these wines are not easier to find outside the country

  • Friday, 18 October, 2019
    FT MagazineWine
    Why is wine so expensive?

    Inflation is a worldwide phenomenon and it applies from the bottom to the top of the scale

  • Friday, 11 October, 2019
    FT MagazineWine
    Red tape to red grape: a British couple’s battle with bureaucracy

    Wine-making in the Basque country has been a long journey for the Hutchinsons

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    How the 2019 vintages are shaping up

    Climate change has had an impact on whether this vintage in the northern hemisphere will be a great one

  • Friday, 27 September, 2019
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    Champagne: tickled pink

    How rosé became respectable

  • Friday, 20 September, 2019
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    English still wine: a sparkling future?

    The 2018 vintage is not to be sniffed at thanks to last summer’s record temperatures

  • Friday, 13 September, 2019
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    Tuscan treasures

    Bolgheri is a rare point of connection between fine Italian and fine French wine

  • Friday, 6 September, 2019
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    The changing landscape of wine

    Jancis Robinson on what she learnt from the wide, and expanding, world of wine while updating her reference book

  • Friday, 16 August, 2019
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    So you think you could run a vineyard?

    Many dream of swapping corporate life for countryside

  • Friday, 2 August, 2019
    FT MagazineWine
    A wine writer’s life

    Jancis Robinson takes stock of her ‘rather magical’ and long career

  • Friday, 26 July, 2019
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    How to find good-value red bordeaux

    Non-classed growths can hold their own with the much more expensive crus classés of the grands châteaux

  • Friday, 19 July, 2019
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    The perils of storing fine wine

    In an era of rising wine prices, just how secure is storage in professional warehouses?

  • Friday, 12 July, 2019
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    Facts with fizz: the case for dates on non-vintage champagne

    Consumers need more information on labels to be able to tell one bottling from another

  • Friday, 5 July, 2019
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    Château Lafite launches in China

    After 11 years of preparation, the most famous wine in the world uncorks its first Chinese vintage

  • Friday, 28 June, 2019
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    Rieslings to be cheerful: Germany’s wine revolution

    Forget over-sweet Liebfraumilch — there are now some thrilling modern German wines

  • Friday, 21 June, 2019
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    Better days for Beaujolais

    The region’s wines provide lovely summer drinking — and a case-study in overcoming setbacks

  • Friday, 14 June, 2019
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    How to pair wine with Japanese food

    Yes, there are rules, though they’re intricate — and sometimes sake is the only option

  • Friday, 7 June, 2019
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    Why is natural wine so divisive?

    Producers of conventional wine roll their eyes at the mention of it while converts will not settle for anything less

  • Friday, 31 May, 2019
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    Wines from Okanagan, Canada’s Napa Valley

    The same pioneering spirit is producing some increasingly impressive bottlings

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