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Nov 16, 2012
Welcome to Bottlewood
Despite punitive taxation, India now has a thriving wine culture – or at least its vast middle class and ‘upper crust’ do
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Nov 9, 2012
Weathering the storms
Hail, a vicious cold snap and a lack of rain have made 2012 an expensive and demanding vintage to make
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Nov 8, 2012
A taste for heritage boosts local varieties
Appreciation of indigenous vines has prompted a global diversification away from just Merlot, Cabernet or Chardonnay
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Nov 2, 2012
Beautiful south
Languedoc makes the sorts of wines that France does best: handmade wines shaped by the terrain in which they are grown
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Oct 26, 2012
French fancies
Included in this year’s Absolutely Cracking selection are three Beaujolais, three Crus Beaujolais and four wines made nearby
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Oct 19, 2012
The matchmakers
‘In my experience, many authorities on food can find wine dauntingly complicated. But this has been changing...’
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Oct 12, 2012
The great grapevine
Where do the world’s wine grapes come from? Not always where you’d think, says Jancis Robinson, the FT’s world-renowned wine critic. In her groundbreaking new book, the parentage of prized varieties turns out to be complex and surprising
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Oct 5, 2012
Bourgeois values
‘Crus Bourgeois rarely improve past 15 years, but the fact you don’t need to wait decades to enjoy them can be an advantage’
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Sep 28, 2012
The rarest rubies
Cockburn’s new owners are determined to restore the port producer’s reputation from mass market to fine wine
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Sep 28, 2012
Adrenalin-driven connoisseur of the finest wines
Patrick Sandeman, wine merchant, 1958-2012
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Sep 21, 2012
A toast to wine legend Joseph Berkmann
‘A lover of the good life, a great raconteur, a voracious general reader and remarkably modest’
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Sep 14, 2012
Châteaux China
At several wineries, it is clear that Ningxia’s raw material is impressively consistent, and five qualify as excellent
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Sep 7, 2012
The new Nahe
‘Top Nahe wines are now recognised as every bit the equal of the best wines from any other German wine region’
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Aug 31, 2012
Delivering on taste
‘I positively relish the holidays as a time when any exposure to alcohol is voluntary’
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Jul 27, 2012
Yes we Catalan
Empordà wines vary hugely in style, but the raw ingredients used could hardly have more personality
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Jul 20, 2012
The Jurassic toast
Wines from Jura may be some of France’s most unusual, but one winemaker thinks they are riding the crest of a wave
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Jul 13, 2012
Harvest them now…
There are great wines in the £10-£30 price category, among them luscious 2009 reds that are still available
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Jul 6, 2012
Portugal’s new colours
The country’s winemakers produce an array of fine whites and distinctive reds
ABOUT JANCIS
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. She has presented several award-winning television programmes including Jancis Robinson’s Wine Course and Vintners’ Tales, and is a professional narrator.
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