JancisRobinson.com

Like many ventures in my life, this website came to be through a mix of unexpected influences. In the early months of 2000, during the height of the dot-com boom, I was approached by numerous online entrepreneurs eager to share their grand plans for making me incredibly wealthy through their internet ideas. I’m sure many others were experiencing the same thing. Most of these proposals were utterly ridiculous, a fact I realized too late when I included a reference to the anticipated www.jancisrobinson.com on the cover of my next book, Jancis Robinson's Wine-tasting Workbook (titled How to Taste in the US). This created a bit of a problem since I believed it was crucial for any advertised project to actually exist. I confided my concerns to Bob Brooks from Brooks Associates, who was our tech expert at that time. He casually mentioned that he could design websites, which seemed remarkably fortuitous. However, I was determined not to have my website resemble everyone else's. So, I enlisted the help of book designer Lisa Sheard, who was not very familiar with the web, to propose some creative visual ideas. Bob then set to work on the technical aspects of the site, incorporating the vibrant oranges, greens, and unique fonts suggested by Lisa, likely thinking we were a bit eccentric. We officially launched on November 1, 2000, and over the following year, we gradually expanded the site’s content with a weekly featured wine and increasing wine news updates. The site began to demand more of my attention. I found the instant nature of online publishing refreshing compared to the lengthy timelines of newspapers and books, allowing me to share the fascinating things I learn and the incredible experiences I have—much more rewarding than watching piles of tasting notes accumulate in my office. However, the time commitment was becoming quite overwhelming.

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English wine leaves home

4 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.
Meininger's International shuts down, Oregon vineyard-management juggernaut, ICE raids

6 days ago | jancisrobinson.com | Samantha Cole-Johnson

wine writing Oregon Washington wine and health Plus, a potential win for US alcohol guidance, and the launch of the Barca Velha Golden Vines MW Scholarships. Above, Moises Sotelo, a longstanding Willamette Valley vineyard worker who was arrested by ICE last Thursday. Before I get to global news, a reminder that Monday 23 June is the last day to submit entries to our yearly wine writing competition.
Southern strength - Germany's 2024 VDP wines

1 week ago | jancisrobinson.com | Paula Sidore

Germany Germany 2024 Riesling Pinot Blanc Rheinhessen Pfalz Baden Rheingau Württemberg The second half of this report focuses on Baden, Pfalz, Rheinhessen, Rheingau and Württemberg. See also part one, Beyond the frost line.
Beyond the frost line - Germany's 2024 VDP wines

1 week ago | jancisrobinson.com | Paula Sidore

Germany Germany 2024 Mosel Franken Nahe Ahr Riesling Part one of a two-part review of this memorable vintage. Today, the Nahe, Franken, the Mosel, Saale-Unstrut, Sachsen and the Ahr. Come back tomorrow for part two. Above, the main hall at this year's Mainzer Weinbörse 2025 (© VDP by Peter Bender). When we left off at this time last year, VDP growers across Germany were still reeling from a bitter cold snap that had arrived just prior to the annual Mainzer Weinbörse.
Bolgheri's 2022s tasted

1 week ago | jancisrobinson.com | Jancis Robinson

Italy Italy 2022 Bolgheri Thirty-one of Bolgheri’s 73 wine producers sent their 2022s to be shown at this year’s tasting in London. So which showed best? Above, Bolgheri vineyards sloping down towards the coast (credit: Linda Vukaj-Aicod, courtesy of the Bolgheri Consorzio).
Treasury Estates bets on NoLos, varietal Muscardin, mapping old vineyards, French glass recycling

1 week ago | jancisrobinson.com | Samantha Cole-Johnson

NOLOs Canada old vines France Australia California Chateauneuf-du-Pape And briefs on Trump’s tariff lawsuits, Canada’s US-made alcohol bans and the effect of ICE immigration raids on the wine industry.
Spring 2025 at Waitrose and Marks & Spencer

2 weeks ago | jancisrobinson.com | Andy Howard MW

The recent spring press tastings at Waitrose and M&S presented an ideal opportunity to compare and contrast the latest wine offer at these two popular retailers. For many decades, both Waitrose and M&S were considered to ‘own’ the middle/upmarket battleground of UK national retailing. In the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, the UK market broadly divided into ‘grocers’ and ‘department stores’, with Tesco, Sainsbury, Morrisons, Asda and Safeway heading up the former group...
Three terrific new books on Italian wine

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...
Mt Etna eruption, RNDC abandons California, Vinarchy investments

2 weeks ago | jancisrobinson.com | Samantha Cole-Johnson

Sicily California US wine market Sweden Australia Plus a change in Sweden that will allow wine producers to sell direct to customers for the first time in nearly a century. Above, the Mt Etna eruption captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, from the European Space Agency.
Chardonnay - from buttery to steely

3 weeks ago | jancisrobinson.com | Jancis Robinson

Australia Burgundy New Zealand South Africa California English wine Chardonnay The world's most popular white wine grape has undergone a revolution. A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See also this account of a recent blind tasting of 34 Chardonnays from around the world. Above, Cavalli Estate in Stellenbosch, producer of one of the best-value wines recommended here.