Jancis Robinson | JancisRobinson.com
WEBJoséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse is the winemaker at St-Émilion's Château Beauséjour, taking the reins as co-director with Prisca Courtin-Clarins in April 2021. Here, in the third of this series we're doing in conjunction with Bordeaux Index, she is interviewed by Victoria Mason MW. See also interviews with Dr Katharina Prüm and Gaia Gaja.
Tasting notes | JancisRobinson.com
WEBTasting notes search. This is one of thousands of features specifically for members of the award-winning JancisRobinson.com – Find out more
The World Atlas of Wine, 8th edition | JancisRobinson.com
WEBWine is geography in a bottle and a really detailed wine atlas should be at every wine lover’s elbow. Hugh Johnson assembled the first edition of the magisterial World Atlas of Wine half a century ago and went on to produce three more. Jancis came on board in 1998 and has now been responsible for another four editions.
Burgundy Red Wine Vintage Chart: 1978 to 2022
WEB2001. Wet summer with some heat spikes. As for red bordeaux from this vintage, a gentle hand was needed in the winery to retain delicacy and not emphasize the already notable tannins. Quite varied quality. Wines from low-yielding grapes will provide exciting long-term drinking but others are gawky. August hail in Volnay.
Merlot wine grapes | JancisRobinson.com
WEBMerlot conventionally makes lush, plummy, velvety wine that can soften Cabernet's more austere frame and, usefully, matures much faster. Very much a wine of the times, it enjoyed enormous popularity in the United States in the 1990s and early 2000s – until usurped by Pinot Noir. Merlot's homeland is Bordeaux where it is the most important ...
Cabernet Sauvignon | JancisRobinson.com
WEBThe progeny of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc, is the world's most famous red wine grape, and most planted of any colour.The 'chocolate' to Chardonnay's 'vanilla', Cabernet is much more positively flavoured than Chardonnay, and ripens much later, so tends to be planted in rather warmer areas. The great distinction of the wine it produces is that it has a very powerful and recognisable ...
Thomson & Scott, Noughty NV Sparkling Wine | JancisRobinson.com
WEBJun 26, 2020 — Thomson & Scott provided me with the following list of retailers and RRPs around the world, but if you can't find the wine, contact them on [email protected]. UK – £8.99. Thomson & Scott. Amazon, BoroughBox, Fenwick, Harvey Nichols, Holland & Barrett, Ocado, Planet Organic, Selfridges, Zeroholic. Ireland – €12–15.
Cabernet Franc | JancisRobinson.com
WEBIn 1997 it was shown by pioneers of applying DNA analysis to grapevines that Cabernet Sauvignon is the progeny of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc, so in fact Cabernet Franc, whose origins seem to lie in Basque country in the western Pyrenees, must predate Cabernet Sauvignon by quite a while.As a vine and a wine, Cabernet Franc is more ...
Rioja wine region | JancisRobinson.com
WEBRioja has traditionally been American oak's most expressive ambassador. The wine is made from a blend of Tempranillo and Garnacha (Grenache) grapes aged for a considerable number of years in the sweet, vanilla-scented warmth of small American oak barrels. The result of this prolonged ageing was to allow a high proportion of phenolics to be left ...
Team | JancisRobinson.com
WEBJancis was voted the world's most influential wine critic in various polls in the US, France and internationally in 2018 – although she describes herself as a wine writer rather than a wine critic. She founded JancisRobinson.com in 2000, selling the award-winning, subscription-only wine website to US digital publisher Recurrent Ventures in 2021.