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5 days ago | 
jancisrobinson.com | Tamlyn Currin
English wine food and wine matching sparkling wine Tam goes on a wine-and-food pairing spree for English Wine Week. While reviewing dozens of English wines, now exported around the world, she finds they hold their own no matter how challenging the cuisine. This week is English Wine Week ,an annual celebration that I think, looking at Jancis’s article English wine – far from a joke now, written in 2007, has been going for nearly 20 years.
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2 weeks ago | 
jancisrobinson.com | Tamlyn Currin
The Magpie’s Guide to MontalcinoLaura R GrayPublished by Constellations PressISBN 9781917000031£20, €24I’m not sure what I was expecting when I first opened the pages of The Magpie’s Guide to Montalcino. A travel guide, maybe? A history of the place? Montalcino wine and people from a bird’s eye view? It wasn’t what I found. In fact, I was a bit baffled. Is this a dictionary? A lexicon? A sort of one-town encyclopaedia? It was definitely an A–Z of something. One eyebrow...
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3 weeks ago | 
jancisrobinson.com | Tamlyn Currin
Italy Soave white wine Out of fierce resilience, ambition and elegant resolution comes this luminous, complex white wine. And it sells for as little as €22.50, $25, £25. In the 1940s, under the blackouts and bombs of World War II, a boy too young to fight was trying to finish high school in Trentino.
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3 weeks ago | 
jancisrobinson.com | Tamlyn Currin
Etna Sicily Italy old vines Surprising facts and wise insights gained on the slopes of a Sicilian volcano. Plus reviews of over 50 Etna wines. In April 2008, Jancis published Etna – the burgundy of the Mediterranean?
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1 month ago | 
jancisrobinson.com | Tamlyn Currin
France Cabernet Franc red wine Loire A deliciously energetic Cabernet Franc ready for anything. From €11.40, £12.95, $22. He’s greying at the wings but has the energy of a 25-year-old. The enthusiasm of a child. I’m listening, kind of entranced and also laughing (in empathy) at his tech-phobe exasperation. It’s taken a while to get this online meeting underway. Neither of us, it seems, is very good at working out how to share his presentation online.
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2 months ago | 
jancisrobinson.com | Tamlyn Currin
Natural Trailblazers13 ways to climate-friendly wineCamilla GjerdePublished by Now What PublishingISBN 9789153114239£26, $36‘I’m standing in the middle of nowhere on the valley floor in south Auvergne, close to tears … I don’t have her phone number, and the wind is picking up. Headwind.’It could almost be the start of a Scandi-noir crime drama. But it’s not. It’s a wine book. And author Camilla Gjerde and her photographer Cecilia Magnusson are running late. There is...
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2 months ago | 
jancisrobinson.com | Tamlyn Currin
Provence rosé sustainability drought A smashable rosé, completed by a story of positive change, that retails from €16.99, £22.50, and its fine-dining cru classé counterpart from €34.90, $41.99, £40 depending on vintage. ‘If the wars of this century were fought over oil, the wars of the next century will be fought over water.’ That prediction, made by then-vice-president of the World Bank Ismail Serageldin way back in 1995, has been playing a lot on my mind.
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Mar 27, 2025 | 
jancisrobinson.com | Tamlyn Currin
New wine guides to the Jura, the Loire and Rioja Thursday 27 March 2025 • 12 min read Two essential guides to overlooked wine regions – the Jura and the Loire – and a third on Rioja, the first of a new series of wine travel guides. Jura Wine Ten Years OnThe evolution of a remarkable wine region Wink LorchPublished by Academie du Vin LibraryISBN 9780992833169£15Few of us talk of the mountain wines of eastern France without the name Wink Lorch popping up.
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Mar 21, 2025 | 
jancisrobinson.com | Tamlyn Currin
Cool wines from cool people in a cool climate. Plus some Tasmanian wines for good measure. See also Victoria – cooler than Burgundy?
A few days ago, I pinged Max Allen, our Melbourne-based correspondent, with a linguistic question. ‘Would you use Victoria or Victorian when referring to something from the state of Victoria? Eg “tasting Victorian wines”, or “tasting Victoria wines”?
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Mar 20, 2025 | 
jancisrobinson.com | Tamlyn Currin
Can this southern Australian state compete with Burgundy for cool-climate wines with real personality and sense of place?
I’m hunched into a thin cotton cardigan, face into an icy wind, leaning into the single slice of sunshine on the ferry deck as it chugs across The Rip. Port Phillip Bay is 360°-wide, silver-navy blue. My hands are purple with cold.
