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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, 11 January, 2025
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    A stylized image of a man in red holding onto oversized green bills emerging from a wine glass filled with grapes
  • Saturday, 4 January, 2025
    FT MagazineWine
    It’s the weather, stupid: Jancis Robinson on the year in wine

    Plus: production is down, corkage is up and ‘natural’ is becoming more of a norm

    Cartoon illustration of two wine corks with arms and legs joyfully diving into a glass of red wine labelled ‘2024,’ with splashes of wine in the air
  • Saturday, 28 December, 2024
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    What I learnt from a blind tasting of cork vs screwcap bottles

    A rare opportunity to try the same wine with different closures proves eye-opening

  • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
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    The best strong and sweet wines for Christmas (and they’re a bargain)

    Port, sherry, Sauternes and more

  • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
    FT MagazineWine
    The best red wines for Christmas 2024

    From a £8 wine that’s worth ageing to a Chilean classic

  • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
    FT MagazineWine
    The best white wines for Christmas

    From a £6.99 Waitrose bargain to bottles worth cellaring

  • Saturday, 30 November, 2024
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    The best fizz for Christmas, from £10 to £370

    Jancis Robinson recommends standout champagne, Crémant and sparkling wine

  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    FT MagazineWine
    Wine experts love Alsace Riesling. Why doesn’t everyone else?

    The region’s wine woes are multiplying

  • Saturday, 16 November, 2024
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    In France’s peaceful wine country, high-end tourism is booming

    Denise Dupré has got American money to spend on French wine tourism

  • Saturday, 9 November, 2024
    FT MagazineWine
    Can Australia make Cab Sav cool again?

    Independent producers are making the best of a tricky situation and a traditional grape

  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    FT MagazineWine
    Is the demonisation of alcohol justified?

    New WHO guidelines suggest there is no safe level of alcohol consumption. Jancis Robinson isn’t so sure

  • Saturday, 26 October, 2024
    FT MagazineWine
    The rewards of patience: good wine and complicated vintages

    On a risky attempt to prove that Italian wines can age too

  • Saturday, 19 October, 2024
    FT MagazineWine
    New experiments in grape growing

    Breeders have crossed and hybridised vines for centuries but they’re facing different challenges now

  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    FT MagazineWine
    Can the French make good wine in California?

    More and more producers are buying up west coast properties 

  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    FT MagazineWine
    India is getting serious about wine. What will that mean?

    The latest hobby enjoyed by affluent Indians might give producers reason to be cheerful

  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
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    How the tiny village of Douzens became an organic wine hotspot

    Why did four organic producers emerge from the same Corbières village of 800 people?

  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
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    When did we stop drinking at working lunches?

    Even sandwich meetings used to come with wine — then the Americans arrived

  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
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    A visit to Bhutan to taste wine from the country’s first vineyards

    Can a country with no history of wine become a great grape-growing nation?

    An illustration depicting traditional Bhutanese houses on a mountain peak, all inside a large wine glass, against a pale yellow background
  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
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    How (and why) to store your wine properly

    From DIY home solutions to tax-efficient bonded warehouses

  • Saturday, 31 August, 2024
    FT MagazineWine
    Is central and eastern Europe the next big thing in wine?

    For once, the hype seems justified — but you’ll struggle to get hold of many top bottles

    An illustration of a man in a brown suit peering through the bottom of a wine glass, out of the top of which is emerging a vine with grapes and gold stars
  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
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    Secrets of the wine list sleuths

    How premium producers keep tabs on their stockists

  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
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    Nine ways to build an affordable wine cellar

    Bottles under £15, champagne for a wedding, and other beginner-friendly categories

  • Saturday, 27 July, 2024
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    On the trail of an endangered species: Napa Valley’s DIY grape growers

    In the land of big wine money, some families are still doing it for themselves

  • Saturday, 20 July, 2024
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    The fall and rise of Hermitage La Chapelle

    The shattered idol of northern Rhône wine is back on an even keel

  • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
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    Who’d be a Turkish wine producer?

    Turkish wine should be great, but President Erdoğan’s regime is making things very hard indeed

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