Tamlyn Currin

United Kingdom

Wine Writer at JancisRobinson.com

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Articles

Domaine de la Noblaie, Le Temps des Cerises 2023 Chinon

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.
Natural Trailblazers - book review

1 month 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...
Château Galoupet's Provence rosés

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.
New wine guides to the Jura, the Loire and Rioja

2 months ago | 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.
Victoria's cool Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs

2 months ago | 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”?
Victoria - cooler than Burgundy?

2 months ago | 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.
Château de la Chaize 2022 Brouilly

Mar 7, 2025 | jancisrobinson.com | Tamlyn Currin

Beaujolais at its best – affordable, crushable and responsibly grown and made. From €14.90, $18.95, £18.99. It rather fascinated me that, on my recent two-week trip to Victoria, Australia, the wine that all the wine producers were geeking out over was beaujolais. They were in awe of burgundy (cue reverential tones), but, as one of them said to me with a shrug: ‘Who can afford it now? It’s a special-occasion wine.’ Beaujolais, I was told, is affordable and ‘crushable’.
Ukraine wine with food

Feb 24, 2025 | jancisrobinson.com | Tamlyn Currin

Tam takes Wines of Ukraine's 'just one bottle' campaign and runs with it, creating six nights of incredible excuses to seek out Ukrainian wine. In early March 2022, two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, we began to publish a series of letters that Olga Lapina, head of imports at Wine Bureauin Kyiv, had managed to send to their suppliers, trying to keep them apprised of the unfolding situation. Reading back over them now is quite heartbreaking.
Cahors - letting in the light

Feb 20, 2025 | jancisrobinson.com | Tamlyn Currin

A renaissance in South West France. When I studied for the WSET diploma nearly two decades ago, we were taught that the homeland of Malbec was Cahors in South-West France.
Beaujolais Nouveau 2024 - beyond November

Feb 13, 2025 | jancisrobinson.com | Tamlyn Currin

There's no rush to enjoy the new wave of BoJoNos – these fresh reds will keep you happy all winter long. On 19 November 2021, I wrote that ‘we had, until 12 November 2021, exactly four Beaujolais Nouveau tasting notes’. I’m proud to announce that with this article, we’ve hit nearly 80 tasting notes. That’s a cool 1,900% increase in coverage. It represents three correlated facts: producers are changing; consumers are changing; wine writers are changing.