From FOOD & DRINK Jan 4, 2013

The great vine decline

Illustration depicting wine disease ©Ingram Pinn

The rise in the incidence of vine wood diseases is worrying vignerons

An illustration by Ingram Pinn depicting the season's choice of sweet and strong wine ©Ingram Pinn From FOOD & DRINK Dec 21, 2012

Top 100 festive wines: sweet and strong

Fresh and nervy? Long and rich? Polished and glamorous? Take your pick

Illustration by Ingram Pinn showing bottles of white wine in the snow ©Ingram Pinn From FOOD & DRINK Dec 14, 2012

Top 100 festive wines – part three: blanc beauty

France continues to hog a lot of recommendations but top marks to one retailer for sourcing in strange-but-satisfying places

Illustration of red wines ©Illustration by Ingram Pinn From FOOD & DRINK Dec 7, 2012

Top 100 festive wines - part two: well-bred reds

‘All these wines, culled from the 10,000 or so I taste each year, are thoroughly distinctive and superior’

Sparkling wine From FOOD & DRINK Nov 30, 2012

Top 100 festive wines - part one: fine fizzes

Light and brisk or solid and savoury? Choose your Christmas bubbly with the first of our four-part series. Plus, win a magnum of Grand Cru champagne

A collage of wine implements as gift ideas From FOOD & DRINK Nov 23, 2012

Toasts of the town

What do you get a wine lover for Christmas? Jancis Robinson shares her favourite gifts

An illustration by Ingram Pinn depicting wine in India ©Ingram Pinn From FOOD & DRINK 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

Wine and weather illustration by Ingram Pinn ©Ingram Pinn From FOOD & DRINK 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

close-up shot of wine in a glass that is being held by a person in a business suit ©Dreamstime From SPECIAL REPORTS 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

Languedoc ©Ingram Pinn From FOOD & DRINK 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

From FOOD & DRINK Oct 26, 2012

French fancies

Included in this year’s Absolutely Cracking selection are three Beaujolais, three Crus Beaujolais and four wines made nearby

From FOOD & DRINK Oct 19, 2012

The matchmakers

‘In my experience, many authorities on food can find wine dauntingly complicated. But this has been changing...’

From FOOD & DRINK 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

From FOOD & DRINK 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’

From FOOD & DRINK 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

From COMMENT Sep 28, 2012

Adrenalin-driven connoisseur of the finest wines

Patrick Sandeman, wine merchant, 1958-2012

From FOOD & DRINK 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’

From FOOD & DRINK Sep 14, 2012

Châteaux China

At several wineries, it is clear that Ningxia’s raw material is impressively consistent, and five qualify as excellent

From FOOD & DRINK 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’

From FOOD & DRINK Aug 31, 2012

Delivering on taste

‘I positively relish the holidays as a time when any exposure to alcohol is voluntary’

ABOUT JANCIS

Jancis RobinsonJancis 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.

E-mail Jancis Robinson