Brief bio of Jancis
One of a handful of wine communicators with an international reputation, Jancis Robinson writes daily for JancisRobinson.com, weekly for The Financial Times, and bi-monthly for a column that is syndicated around the world. She is also editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine and co-author with Hugh Johnson of The World Atlas of Wine, each of these books recognised as a standard reference worldwide.
An award-winning tv presenter, she is invited all over the world to conduct wine events and act as a wine judge. In 1984 she was the first person outside the wine trade to pass the rigorous Master of Wine exams and in 2003 she was awarded an OBE by Her Majesty the Queen, on whose cellar she now advises.
She loves and lives for wine in all its glorious diversity, generally favouring balance and subtlety over sheer mass.
See Jancis Robinson - the long version for more detail.
See Where to find us for details of current events, publications and broadcasts.
See Site history for details of the evolution of JancisRobinson.com
The rest of the team
Julia Harding MW is Jancis's fulltime assistant and invaluable to the functioning of this site. See here for full details of her glorious career. As a relatively recent top pass in the punishing Master of Wine exams (she took them in 2003 and passed first time with flying colours), she is particularly up to speed on oenological and viticultural matters.
Linda Murphy, until 2006 wine editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, is our West Coast correspondent, signed to beef up our coverage for our many American visitors. See here for more about Linda's undoubted qualities and some of the reaction to news of her appointment. She is currently carving out a highly successful career as a freelance wine writer, lecturer and wine judge. She is West Coast correspondent for Decanter magazine, managing editor at WineTasteTv.com and a columnist for WineReviewOnline.com.
Rachel Shaughnessy, a Sussex-based chartered accountant, is our subscriptions supremo and is your point of contact for all queries concerning membership of purple pages. She can be reached at subscriptions@jancisrobinson.com
Not forgetting Nick Lander, he who must be obeyed, Mr Jancis Robinson and Financial Times restaurant critic, super-chef and food service consultant to all manner of arts organisations such as the Royal Opera House, the Ashmolean in Oxford and the South Bank Centre, who so kindly supplies Nick's food news. See more at www.nicklander.com.
Other contributors include Richard Hemming (left), ex Majestic manager, cellar rat in Australia and England, and now Master of Wine student; 
Tamlyn Currin (right), dedicated WSET Diploma student and word processing whizz who makes a huge difference to how all our tasting notes look; Melanie Jones of QuaffersOffers.co.uk (see here for details of Melanie's achievements); German specialist Michael Schmidt; and Italian specialist Walter Speller (see here). Victoria Daskal also contributed to our site in 2008 when she was completing her Master's degree under the auspices of the OIV, the International Organisation of Vine and Wine.
