The American wine market seems to me even more plagued by generalisations - especially those pertaining to vintage assessments. The 1998s were…
12 Apr 2004 Jancis RobinsonA long-standing purple pager in Brazil asked whether I'd care to comment on the news that Robert Mondavi, arguably the single most famous living wine…
26 Dec 2003 Jancis RobinsonHere are notes on a wide range of Californian wines tasted over the past few months. Wines are arranged with whites before reds and then…
6 Nov 2003 Jancis RobinsonSmokers to the right, smokers to the left. All around are red-and-white checked napkins and tablecloths; on the walls inter alia are pictures of Oscar…
18 Oct 2003 Nick LanderAt a gigantic tasting of the current wares of Britain's most wine-minded supermarket Waitrose this week I was bowled over by an organic Greek red.…
9 Oct 2003 Jancis RobinsonTake a look at www.grapes-wine.com, the website of Turrentine Wine Brokerage in California. It's salutory to see just how much bulk wine is available…
19 Sep 2003 Jancis RobinsonI'm publishing this article having been inspired by some current tasting notes on Sean Thackrey's wines in purple pages. It originally appeared in…
31 Dec 2002 Jancis RobinsonBryant Family Cabernet, one of the most opulent but arguably least subtle of the California cult Cabs, will no longer be made by queen of Californian…
24 Oct 2002 Jancis RobinsonI heard a rumour that the proposed bill that would restrict distribution of wines and spirits within California to a single distributor (see [link])…
24 May 2002 Jancis RobinsonOne of our beloved multinationals, Diageo, based here in London but with tentacles across the globe (not least in the remains of the old Seagram wine…
22 Apr 2002 Jancis Robinson11 May 2002 - more than 80 additional tasting notes on current Californian releases have been added. Alas, too many of them from the 1998 vintage. Not…
11 Mar 2002 Jancis RobinsonAnother day, another trip to Paris, this time to discuss next September's publication of L'Atlas Mondial du Vin with publishers Flammarion. From the…
13 Dec 2001 Jancis RobinsonJohn Hicks of Maurice Carrie Winery and Van Roekel Vineyards contacted me the other day to ask why I had included his region, Temecula in southern…
6 Dec 2001 Jancis RobinsonCoagulation is all the rage in the wine world. Takeovers and snuggling up sessions abound, sometimes unlikely, sometimes incomprehensible. Robert…
11 Nov 2001 Jancis RobinsonIs California dreaming? - an extraordinary assessment of the cult wines that cost more than Bordeaux's first growths. For 200 years Bordeaux was the…
15 Apr 2001 Jancis Robinson
