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.
Campania | JancisRobinson.com
WEBThe vineyards of the region dominated by the city of Naples are in many ways some of Italy's most exciting. Many of them are planted with vines thought to be direct descendants of those brought here by the ancient Greeks. The very name of Aglianico, a red grape of enormous character which is so late-ripening it cannot be grown economically further north, is a corruption of Elleniko, or Greek.
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 ...
Wine maps | JancisRobinson.com
WEBWine maps of the world. Since Hugh Johnson launched The World Atlas of Wine in 1971, it has sold over 4.7m copies worldwide in eight comprehensively revised editions, four of them co-authored by Jancis. Enjoy exclusive access to these fully searchable maps from the most recent, 2019 edition.
Côtes du Roussillon | JancisRobinson.com
WEBCôtes du Roussillon. Roussillon is often appended to the Languedoc, as in Languedoc-Roussillon, but has a quite distinct character of its own, in landscape, in ethnic roots (Roussillon still regards itself as part of Catalonia across the border in Spain), and in wine styles. Whereas the Languedoc is almost entirely dependent on vine-growing ...
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 ...
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.
Chablis wine region | JancisRobinson.com
WEBBurgundy's white wine outpost is one of France's most northern and it is hardly surprising therefore that the wines are naturally relatively sinewy, high in acidity and steely rather than luscious and oaky. This is an archetypally refreshing, long-lived style of white wine which very few wine regions, possibly none other than Chablis, can produce.
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 ...
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.