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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)
  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
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    How to build a cellar on a budget: the Americas

    A guide to affordable North American wine, and South American wine worth ageing

  • Saturday, 25 May, 2024
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    Germany’s new generation of winegrowers

    The dark days of sweet wine and poor quality have never felt further away

  • Saturday, 18 May, 2024
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    A castle, a forgotten cellar and a vintage port extravaganza 

    The underground treasures of Raby Castle are finally seeing the light of day

  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
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    How to build wine cellar on a budget: Spain and Portugal

    Iberia offers rich pickings for wine enthusiasts working to a price

  • Saturday, 4 May, 2024
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    How to become a Napa Valley wine mogul without ever touching a vine

    The path to success is paved with management companies and consultants

  • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
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    The Sancerre success story

    How the tiny, friendly French region became a global sensation

  • Saturday, 20 April, 2024
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    Napa Valley is California’s wine barometer, an expensive one

    Big corporations — and lots of tourists — are changing the West Coast’s most famous wine-growing region

  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
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    What wines are trend-conscious Italians drinking? 

    It’s time to look beyond the obvious regions and wine types

  • Saturday, 6 April, 2024
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    How to build a cellar on a budget: a guide to central Europe

    Advice on choosing the best Riesling, Grüner Veltliner, Blaufränkisch and more

  • Saturday, 30 March, 2024
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    Cork vs screwcap: which is better for the planet?

    Cork has been on the out for a while — but now it’s got fashionable natural credentials 

  • Saturday, 23 March, 2024
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    The surprising wines that pair best with red meat 

    Top-quality tri-tip and a mixed bag of bottles lead to some happy discoveries 

  • Saturday, 16 March, 2024
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    It’s Spain’s turn for a wine revolution

    The Viñateros movement is a significant shake-up for vineyards

  • Saturday, 9 March, 2024
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    How to build a wine cellar

    Jancis Robinson’s series about how to build an affordable cellar

  • Saturday, 9 March, 2024
    FT MagazineWine
    How to build a wine cellar: a guide to Italian wines

    Barolo alternatives, the rehabilitation of Chianti Classico and which white wines age well

  • Saturday, 2 March, 2024
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    What 500 (collective) years in the wine business teaches you

    Notes from my recent knees-up with fellow ‘1950 Babes’

  • Saturday, 10 February, 2024
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    How to build a wine cellar: a guide to French wines that age well

    The second instalment of Jancis Robinson’s cellar series includes burgundy, champagne and Rhône wines

  • Saturday, 3 February, 2024
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    The month I went off wine

    January is the busiest month in London’s wine calendar, but I’m drinking apple juice in Tenerife instead

  • Saturday, 27 January, 2024
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    Dispatch from a drunken tasting of 2002 versus 2004 champagnes

    Even a wine writer has their limits — for example, tasting 50 bottles of champagne

  • Saturday, 20 January, 2024
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    One man and his extraordinary cellar: the Luigi Veronelli story

    The gastronome who reinvented Italian wine died with more than 35,000 bottles in his cellar. Finally, they might get drunk

    Debora Szpilman
  • Saturday, 13 January, 2024
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    How to build a cellar: a guide to affordable bordeaux

    Bottle recommendations, plus an explanation of ‘second wines’, ‘super seconds’ and storage

  • Saturday, 6 January, 2024
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    Can a bordeaux loyalist learn to love Italian wine?

    In Piemonte, Jancis goes in search of a wine that even a Francophile could love

  • Saturday, 30 December, 2023
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    Looking for an AI-safe job? Try writing about wine

    Computational statistics have been wonderful for the wine industry — but the prospect of an ‘artificial nose’ is an AI boogeyman

  • Saturday, 23 December, 2023
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    The state of wine in 2023 — Jancis Robinson’s year in review

    High-street prices are up, trophy prices are down and there’s competition from cannabis

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